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

[Sivasubramanian M]

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> IP addresses are only of use to ISPs.


​Regardless of the context of this comment, it is especially true of India.
 ​The end user does not yet get to have an IP address. ISPs and very large
Business Users get to have IP addresses, who largely assign dynamic IP
addresses. If the ISPs maintain a session-wise NAT table that traces the
end user by the dynamic address assigned to the user for the session, such
a system is prone to be unreliable.

The world feels the scarcity of IPv4 addresses during the last 7 years,
whereas in India the ISPs have made the IP addresses very dear from the
beginning. Possibly for this reason, it suited the Network Operators not to
try to obtain huge blocks as Operators from other countries did.

Now even if the Government throws its weight behind this 'cause' and
obtains by some means IPv4 blocks, how would it be a benefit to the end
user in India?


Sivasubramanian M <https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg> wrote:

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>
> 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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