[governance] PP: India wants to abolish BGP and introduce national routing and IP management

[Barry Shein]

No, the question was whether RIR's purviews are defined as serving a
set of nation-states. The answer to that question is, with some
pragmatic exceptions, yes.


On November 3, 2014 at 09:50 daniel at digsys.bg (Daniel Kalchev) wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > On 01.11.14 19:35, Barry Shein wrote:
 > > 
 > > On November 1, 2014 at 04:49 suresh at hserus.net (Suresh Ramasubramanian) wrote:
 > >  > Not strictly geographical either. RIPE covered a lot of North Africa 
 > >  > historically
 > > 
 > > I would call that geographic, one can still draw a continuous circle
 > > around it spanning the Mediterranean. It wasn't haphazard certainly.
 > > 
 > > Of course one could attribute other motives, that the "circle" mostly
 > > covers the non-black (dominant) population of Europe and N Africa.
 > > 
 > > I suppose the real question is what was the question?
 > > 
 > 
 > The question was: is IP address allocation based on nation-state borders.
 > 
 > The short answer is NO.
 > 
 > Daniel

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