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

[McTim]

I will be happy to declare a victory if I can convince you that thinking of
IP resource distribution in Westphalian terms isn't useful.

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Cheers,

McTim


On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 1:25 AM, Guru Acharya <gurcharya at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > [Guru]: I understand that current allocation is as per "need" (in
>> > contrast
>> > to equity between sub-regions). However, the allocation is also
>> > "first-come-first-serve" in addition to "need". Put together, the
>> > resource
>> > is allocated to whoever establishes "need on a first-come-first-serve"
>> > basis. As a result, India's late adoption of the Internet exposes it to
>> > an
>> > almost empty resource pool of IPv4 addresses.
>>
>> It wasn't almost empty when India first got online.  Everyone is in
>> the same boat in
>> terms of constrained resources.  There is no "inequity" when everyone
>> suffers equally.  See below:
>>
>
> Let me get this right. You are saying that India is not a late entrant
> because when the first person from India got an internet connection there
> were a lot of IP addresses available. Therefore, in your head, late entrant
> has nothing to do with the fact that less than 20% of India has access to
> Internet and that India is adding almost a million internet connections a
> month. And you say our situation is "equitable" to Japan with 95% broadband
> penetration and a major chuck of the IPv4 pool? Right. Ok. Agreed. There is
> no inequity. You win.
>

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