[governance] For you as an Internet user, what is a "Critical Internet resource"?

[Milton L Mueller]

-----Original Message-----
From: McTim [mailto:dogwallah at gmail.com] 

>So are slots in the "global routing table" a CIR? 

I would say yes.

>If so, which
>organisation(s) would have policy authority over them? 

Currently, Tier one ISPs make those decisions in an autonomous,
self-regulatory manner. Maybe that is the best policy, maybe it isn't.
We need to understand the process, the consequences and the alternatives
better. 

> Are you
>suggesting that slots themselves should be somehow
>allocated/assigned/leased/sold??

If that would improve the efficiency of routing and/or the stability of
the system, it is something that should be explored. No one, including
me, has a well-defined policy on this that they are peddling at the
moment. We are in the exploratory phases of analysis, identification of
problems, etc. We do hear about the externalities caused by adding
routing entries costlessly, and about the constant threat of an
oversized routing table, and about the need for provider independent
address blocks. Those sound like the kind of problems that might lead to
global policy initiatives at some point (or not).


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