WG chair hat off - speaking as a co-author of the drafts in question
On 21/11/2008, at 3:51 AM, Sandra Murphy wrote:
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Roque Gagliano wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Samuel.
On Nov 17, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Samuel Weiler wrote:
Item 1: May BOAs be issued only by RIRs or also by entities
further down the heirarchy? From section 1:
"This document defines an application of the Resource Public Key
Infrastructure (RPKI) to validate the attestations of INTERNET
REGISTERIES that certain addresses are currently neither allocated
nor assigned to any party,..." (emphasis added)
Internet Registry > Regional Internet Registry. It includes
National Internet Registry and Local Internet Registry. The
architecture document uses the term: "internet registry or LIR/ISP".
The use of the terms NIR and LIR are more common in some regions
than in others. Those areas where NIR and LIR are seldom used hear
"RIR" when "registry" is mentioned. The architecture draft goes
through all the possibilities, but does not introduce the "Internet
Registry" as the generic term. Given the potential confusion on the
part of some, it might be best to inject a parenthetical "(RIR, NIR,
LIR/ISP)" in any doc that uses the generic term.
I hear your request, but the textual change suggested seems to me to
be no better - the generic term of an "internet registry" is used to
describe those entities who perform an allocation / assignment
function for Internet number resources. If Sam's a priori
interpretation of the term is more restricted than that broad
intention then I can see some merit in making the change as a note in
terminology, but I don't see it as such a big issue that it warrants a
new rev of the documents just for this point.
But the question still stands, I think. Some entities that receive
addresses are not RIR/NIR/LIR. Or so I believe. Is an enterprise
that receives address space considered a registry, even if it does
not sub-allocate?
Hm. What about cell phones that are being handed huge blocks of
IPv6 addresses? Don't know that anyone is thinking of running BGP
from their cell phone, so maybe the question is moot.
I smell a reductio absurdum argument being made here - I don't think
it leads anywhere useful for me!
Geoff
_______________________________________________
sidr mailing list
[email protected]
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sidr
