[governance] My blog on the Tuesday consultation

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Jeanette and all,

  I can't nor would not speak for Milton, but I believe and/or hope
you are familiar with the history of IPv6 and the allocation policies
for IPv4.  IPv6 was controversial from the start many years
ago in it's early development.  As designed regarding implementation
methods, it is inherently insecure, which causes safety and privacy
problems that although can be overcome via various methods, cause
or will cause operational interoperability problems that could have
been, and in my view, should have been dealt with in the early on
development, but were ignored for reason or reasons that have been
clouded in miss and dis information for several years.

  The need/desire to reclaim unused IPv4 address space is an issue
of huge proportions as allocation policy by "Friends" of the late
Jon Postal was the early on policy, period.  @Home, later acquired
by AT&T were key later events that went a long way in creating the
current shortage, which really doesn't actually exist for IPv4 addresses,
of is at a minimum very much contrived.  Reversing those old policies
will not balance or reclaim that address space, and conversion to IPv6
being both expensive and pose both operational and security problems
is not widely desired.  Large IAP's especially do not wish to give
up anything for the greater good, and have the $$ to fight off challenges
to do so, and likely will.  Regional ISP's and other types of hybrid
providers, also face clear challenges that alone they cannot solve
regarding address space, especially IPv4 space, which will be with
us for a very long time to come.

Jeanette Hofmann wrote:

> Hi Milton, you address something on the blog that I have also found
> puzzling. The technical community engages in fierce debates on their
> mailing lists and in face2face meetings. However, as soon as they
> interact with others they take an educational stance and try to hide the
> highly controversial dimension of the issues at stake. IPv4/IPv6 is a
> good example. Why is that?
> jeanette
>
> Milton L Mueller wrote:
> >
> > For those of you who haven''t seen it, here is my take on the IGF
> > consultation
> > http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2008/9/17/3889384.html
> >
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