[governance] USG on ICANN - no movement here

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

McTim and all,

  Indeed V4 is nearly exausted.  2011 may be optomistic as
an end of PA space date.  ICANN's push for V6 is still looking
bad as well for a number of already known reasons, security
being a primary reason.  But than again when I was on the
v6 development group, I saw early on that v6 was not the way
to go.  So the chickens have or will be coming home to roost.

  Allocating to governments is indeed an option but a poor one
for many already known reasons, one of which you mentioned
McTim.

  China moving ever so slowly but surely to v9 may overtake
in a few years...

McTim wrote:

> Hello Milton,
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> not to mention not physically possible, as countries don't "get" IP
> >> addresses, organisations do.
> >
> > McTim, there is nothing "physically impossible" about delegating IP
> > addresses to nations first.
>
> Well, in terms of v4, it's certainly not possible, as there are not
> enough addresses left, perhaps I should have been more specific.  My
> points remain however;
>
> A) it's not the current model of allocation
> B) it's unlikely that the IANA would allocate to countries (instead of
> to RIRs, as the nro would have smt to say about this idea).
> C) This was not (and is still not) well understood````
>
> We probably agree that it is politically
>
> technically undesirable due to deaggregation (or lack of aggregation
> to be more precise).
>
> > undesirable, but don't make the mistake of trying to make a policy point
> > by making false technical claims.
>
> not a technical claim at all, was merely pointing out that you can't
> allocate on a grand scale something that you don't possess on such a
> scale (IPv4).
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> mctim.blogspot.com
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