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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>it s also true that there is routing policy that is instantiated in
these tables and some of it has to do with financial and political
considerations - who will be allowed to transit a particular network is often a
business and/or political decision.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Exactly. More fundamentally, there are a
host of contractual, legal and financial incentives that govern how and why
people route the way they do. Those arrangements are affected by public policy,
sometimes directly sometimes indirectly. The fact that technical people are
often unaware of these environmental factors doesn’t mean they don’t
exist and are not important. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>but having said that, i certainly don't find myself in favor of some
sort of top down policy control for these essentially local policy
decisions. and the idea of some regulatory entity having
something to say about routing policy is somewhat frightening.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Anyone who knows my politics knows that I wouldn’t’
favor “top-down regulation” either. But we do have regulatory
agencies that “have something to say about routing policy” –
they are called Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). (I hope we don’t now
have a useless conversation about whether RIRs are policy making entities or
not.) The way RIRs allocate addresses has a lot to do with how routing takes
place, doesn’t it? Block size, imposition of route aggregation
constraints, and the need to register addresses with RIRs all have some kind of
impact. The whole decision whether to create RIRs and what region qualifies for
one would be a simple example of a decision that would have a major effect on
routing policy. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>More generally, it is not inconceivable
that there might be institutional decisions made at the national or global regarding
liability, security, address transferability, police surveillance, contracting,
consumer protection, etc. that could either facilitate the coordination of routes,
or make the process worse.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am eager to explore these issues. Unfortunately,
it’s all too rare to find people like Karl Auerbach or Avri –
technical people who are nevertheless willing to think about the economic and
political aspects of the technical decision making. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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