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

[Daniel Kalchev]

This has nothing to do with BGP and routing. And not much with "status
quo-ists" (an interesting twist in the language).

It is all about power hungry government/industrial behemoth wannabees
who are advised by incompetent "experts" on matters where they have no
authority.

Technically, there is no issue of whole if India or whatever other state
"unites" (if they can, technically and politically) and announcing
themselves to the world as one AS. The rest of the Internet could not
care less...

In essence, it is monopoly telcos longing for the old times of total
control. They tried to Extend, Embrace and Extinguish the Internet and
now begin to realize this is an impossible task.

If those types want to have an telecom network under their own control,
why not just build one? Then, they will be able to control the address
and resource allocation there as well as who and when can use it. The
only challenge here is to find a way to force everyone, or anyone, to
use it.

It is amazing how much resources are wasted every day on 'hot topics'
like these.

The other sad consequence is that the ITU, an organization that was once
going well on standards gets put into this political nonsense and loses
any credibility.

Daniel

On 26.10.14 23:58, michael gurstein 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.
> 

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