[governance] NTIA statement on IP addressing - broadly supportive of RIRs

[McTim]

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
>
> On 5 Dec 2012, at 01:11, John Curran wrote:
>
>> On Dec 4, 2012, at 2:31 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
>>
>>> And I would think it good it this particular model was reviewed for something more fitting to the current realties and needs.  This is no longer 1993 or the age of RFC 1518.
>>
>> Agreed. Presently, we're up to about 1996, i.e. age of RFC 2050,
>> and specifically with respect to ARIN, we allow transfers to
>> recipients within the ARIN region, as well as to recipients
>> who are in another region.  Transfer policy does reflect the
>> "documented need" principles expressed in RFC2050:
>>
>> "7.  The transfer of IP addresses from one party to another must be
>>     approved by the regional registries.  The party trying to obtain
>>     the IP address must meet the same criteria as if they were
>>     requesting an IP address directly from the IR."
>
>
> Indeed, but this is still based on the CIDR as the prevailing reason for the allocation guidelines.
>
> It is not the guideline, so much, that I am questioning, but the prevailing reason that establishes the criteria discussed in those guidelines.  If the demands of a hierarchical routing structure no longer hold in today's de-facto flattened routing architecture

Is this really the case?

My ISP is my LIR and routes my packets to and fro for me.  I think
this is still the paradigm for most folks, no?


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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