[governance] Re: Warning over Net address limits

[Carlos Afonso]

This is Bortzmeyer's compulsively aggressive style (excess lead in the 
body, perhaps?), I guess we have to live with it.

--c.a.

David Goldstein wrote:
> Stephane,
> 
> Your language is frankly rude. Language such as this does nothing to encourage people to have a voice in internet governance other than current interested players. If you want to keep internet goverance in the hands of the first world with a voice and great telecommunications, fine. But unless encouragement is given to a multitude of voices, then you might as well go live on the moon yourself.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at internatif.org>
> To: Nyangkwe Agien Aaron <nyangkweagien at gmail.com>
> Cc: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Sent: Wednesday, 31 October, 2007 11:04:31 PM
> Subject: [governance] Re: Warning over Net address limits
> 
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:50:13PM +0100,
>  Nyangkwe Agien Aaron <nyangkweagien at gmail.com> wrote 
>  a message of 104 lines which said:
> 
>> Howoever, I just stumbled on this intriquing article on the BBC
> 
> You were on vacation on the Moon? For many months, a huge flow of
> warnings about the depletion of IPv4 addresses come from everywhere.
> 
> A few good references:
> 
> *
> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-55/presentations/huston-ipv4.pdf
> the figures and the evolution (nice pictures of train wrecks)
> 
> * Afrinic position paper :
> http://www.afrinic.net/news/position-on-the-future-of-IP.htm (all the
> RIR now have a similar statement, the first one was ARIN
> http://www.arin.net/announcements/archives/20070521.html and the last
> the RIPE-NCC http://www.ripe.net/news/community-statement.html
> 
> * The most famous reference is certainly the song "The day the routers
> died" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0
> 
> ICANN was among the *last* to react (they delayed the addition of IPV6
> addresses in the root for months), so I find ironic to quote them on
> this matter. Their IPv6 factsheet can be found at
> http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-26oct07.htm
> 
>> Are we heading for an armmagedon?
> 
> Just for a big problem.
> 
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