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

[Daniel Kalchev]

On 27.10.14 09:48, Guru Acharya wrote:
> 
> 
> [Guru]: Either way, I'm guessing the Indian government perceived the ITU
> route to be easier to participate in than the PDP route. Maybe, this
> implies that the PDP needs to be more receptive to nation-states as
> stakeholders (yes yes, on an equal footing as other stakeholders). Maybe
> the PDP can be improved/fine-tuned to address the concerns of
> nation-states as stakeholders (yes yes, on an equal footing as other
> stakeholders).
> 

IP addresses are only of use to ISPs. What would a nation-state do with
IP addresses? In what sense are they stakeholders for IP address space?

These are just numbers, after all.

Daniel

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