On Friday 14 October 2005 12:42, Hari Kurup wrote: > On Oct 14, 2005, at 3:08 PM, Ronny wrote: > > Thanks so do you think it will Split? :-) > > I doubt it will happen so soon, but I am not sure if I wouldn't like > that to happen. > For example thanks to ICANN (read the US Govt.), a country like China > gets to have only 9 million public IPs while Stanford University has > something like 17 million. > If things were controlled by the ITU, perhaps there would be more > fairness.
As much as I agree that IP address alocation was [1] flawed, I beleive that this particular case was mainly historical. The first people to apply for IP address space were given /16s [2] and only when this space was depleted did things like CIDR et al come into play. Handing over to ITU may not fix some of those errors. Decisions made by ICANN AFAIK are based mainly on open forum discussions - and in particular, I personally don't know of any standards, priorites etc (like the China Vs Stanford IP address allocation issue) that were (in)directly influenced by the US Govt. If I don't sound too optimistic of the proposed form of Internet governance it's because I'm not so sure I want to send my request for IP address space to the Ministry of Information (or whatever) ... fill forms in triplicate and probably bribe a few persons along the way - the current process is painfull enough thank you. As always that's all IMHO[3] and I've probably misunderstood some of the concepts involved - and forgive me if I don't have that much faith in our political governments. -- patrick [1] and probably still is even with IPv6 [2] The host of my current e-mail addres is an example [3] In my humble opinion _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
