simon
On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 03:31 AM, Julian Bond wrote:
It looks to me like WIANA was created by Locustworld because they had to have something. It's not a general solution, it's a kludge but for now it does work. Jon has said that they were unable to get a suitable IPv4 block allocated to them. He's also said that they couldn't get a suitable IPv6 block allocated either. If this is all true, and I have no reason to doubt him, then the current system is broken and cannot cope with the new Meshed WLAN architecture.
So how to move this forward? I can understand an IETF view that there is nothing new here and the existing protocols handle the situation. Therefore there's no need for any IETF work. I can also understand the frustration because the current social-political way of implementing those protocols doesn't allow for the new situation. Expecting ICANN to pay attention to this is likely a non-starter given their current disarray. Particularly when the people and groups pushing back this boundary are small and/or loose confederations of programmers.
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