<div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial">IP addresses are only of use to ISPs. </span></blockquote><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Regardless of the context of this comment, it is especially true of India. The end user does not yet get to have an IP address. ISPs and very large Business Users get to have IP addresses, who largely assign dynamic IP addresses. If the ISPs maintain a session-wise NAT table that traces the end user by the dynamic address assigned to the user for the session, such a system is prone to be unreliable. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The world feels the scarcity of IPv4 addresses during the last 7 years, whereas in India the ISPs have made the IP addresses very dear from the beginning. Possibly for this reason, it suited the Network Operators not to try to obtain huge blocks as Operators from other countries did. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Now even if the Government throws its weight behind this 'cause' and obtains by some means IPv4 blocks, how would it be a benefit to the end user in India?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy" target="_blank">Sivasubramanian M</a></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Daniel Kalchev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel@digsys.bg" target="_blank">daniel@digsys.bg</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><br>
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On 27.10.14 09:48, Guru Acharya wrote:<br>
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> [Guru]: Either way, I'm guessing the Indian government perceived the ITU<br>
> route to be easier to participate in than the PDP route. Maybe, this<br>
> implies that the PDP needs to be more receptive to nation-states as<br>
> stakeholders (yes yes, on an equal footing as other stakeholders). Maybe<br>
> the PDP can be improved/fine-tuned to address the concerns of<br>
> nation-states as stakeholders (yes yes, on an equal footing as other<br>
> stakeholders).<br>
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</span>IP addresses are only of use to ISPs. What would a nation-state do with<br>
IP addresses? In what sense are they stakeholders for IP address space?<br>
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These are just numbers, after all.<br>
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Daniel<br>
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