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

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

This isn't "abolish BGP" as much as the old "bypass the RIR structure" and "force local interconnection at a national exchange point" - works well enough in theory with a national internet registry and mandatory peering at a local exchange, but taken to its (il)logical limits, you could easily end up with your own national intranet, great firewall of China style.

With the telecom minister that favored multistakeholderism being removed in the recent elections, I guess the "other" part of indian officialdom that has steadfastly rejected multistakeholderism remains alive and well.

And India being India, implementation of this will remain a challenge, as the various (mostly industry) responses to the recent TRAI consultative paper on why more indian operators don't peer at NIXI shows.

--srs (iPad)

> On 27-Oct-2014, at 03:28, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> [MG>] this one seems to be causing a fair amount of controversy with many of the Status Quo-ists going apoplectic…
> 
> instructs the Secretary General 
> 1 to collaborate with all stakeholders including International and intergovernmental organizations, involved in IP addresses management to develop an IP address plan from which IP addresses of different countries are easily discernible and coordinate to ensure distribution of IP addresses accordingly; 
> 2 to collaborate with all the concerned stakeholders including International and intergovernmental organizations to develop policies for allocation, assignment and management of IP resources including naming, numbering and addressing which is systematic, equitable, fair, just, democratic and transparent and need to be adhered to by entities designated with the responsibilities of allocating or assigning resources and dealing with day-to-day technical and operational matters; 
> 3 to prepare reference plan for current and future telecom networks that addresses concerns of Member States including safety, robustness, resilience, routing in normal and exceptional cases and provide guidance on technical capabilities to developing countries; 
> 4 to develop and recommend public telecom network architecture which ensures effectively that address resolution for the traffic meant for the country, traffic originating and terminating in the country/region takes place within the country; 
> 5 to develop and recommend public telecom network architecture which ensures that effectively the traffic meant for the country, traffic originating and terminating in the country remains within the country; 
> 6 to develop and recommend a routing plan of traffic for optimizing the network resources that could effectively ensure the traceability of communication; 
> 7 to collaborate with all stakeholders involved in studying the weaknesses of present protocols used in telecom networks and develop and recommend secure, robust and tamper proof protocols to meet the requirements of future networks in view of the envisaged manifold increase in traffic and end devices in near future in the light of IoT and M2M needs; 
> 8 to submit an annual report on above to the ITU council.
> 
> <S14-PP-C-0098!!MSW-E.docx>
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