[bestbits] The decentralization of IP addresses

[willi uebelherr]

The decentralization of IP addresses.

We need a completely self-organizing Internet. And this is possible only 
through massive decentralization. We can look at the difficulties at the 
beginning of the Internet with tolerance. They were mostly of a 
technical nature. But today we have other conditions. And from these 
other conditions arise other possibilities.

It is about the IP address. It is necessary to ensure that the packets 
find their direct route to their targets. The router work with numbers. 
We humans with text. The content is the same. Only the representation is 
different.

The Internet, a transport system for digital data in packet form, needs 
this destination address to forward the packets to their destinations 
can. The packets include this destination. With that, the packets are 
the instance to enable and orient the router.

All transport systems operate on the basis of geographical processes. We 
transport from position A to position B. Consider. The transport of 
digital data They are comparable with boxes. In the case the data are. 
They do not care. Outside sticking a piece of paper with the source 
address, destination address and some information about the transport. 
These boxes are being made from the transport routes such as the cars 
and buses on the roads.

Consider the transport of digital data. The IP packets are comparable to 
cases in which the data are packed. But the data do not interest us. 
Outside sticking a piece of paper with the source address, destination 
address and some information about the transport. These boxes flows over 
the transport routes such as the cars and buses on the roads.

At the branches we have to decide how to proceed. There are the routers. 
They look at the paper and read the destination address. This is 
converted to the geographical position and compared to the geographical 
position of the router. The result is a directional angle and the 
distance. And with that each router can immediately decide in which 
direction it goes on.

We have thus fulfilled the first requirement. The global part of the IP 
address is always derived from the geographical position of the local 
network. How we do this is an object of our global discussion and 
cooperation based on the RFCs (Request for Comment). A very simple way.

The local part of the IP address is always self-determined in the local 
network. We do not need to know the schema of resolution outside of the 
local network. In the DNS request we also get this part.

The decisive factor for this solution that we need in the future no 
Internet Governance. No organizations that compete for the award of 
rights of IP addresses. No organizations whose livelihood is based on 
the sale of global IP addresses.

With many greetings, willi
Coro, Venezuela