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

[Daniel Kalchev]

A very nice proposal indeed. I have no doubt few governments will even
vote for it!

My prediction:

1. Most of the Internet will have never, ever heard of this great "save
the Internet" human race goal, and for them, everything will continue as
usual.

2. The Tier 1 "ISP" (*) or "DNS root" operator's mom will call their
child and as "Why can't I read my daily gossip? Do something about it!".
After which, these parts will again rejoin the Internet.

3. There will be a new article about the malicious terrorists that
conspired to halt the Internet.

4. White bearded scientists will long argue on talk shows why the
miscreants wanted the Internet top stop on exactly that date.

5. Next day will come.

Daniel

(*) I have been around long before this unfortunate "Internet Services
Provider" term was invented. Whoever invented it, did a bad service to
the community. For most people it has no meaning. But eventually
everyone embraced it, which is yet another proof of how little people do
care about those things.

PS: Yes, I agree that such event would "solve" this India proposal. But
nobody will agree to that, because by 2020 those who want it, won't be
in office anymore. It has to happen before the next elections, in fact.


On 28.10.14 21:39, Barry Shein wrote:
> 
> Straw Man:
> 
> The obvious solution to the IPv4 address distribution issues in
> Proposal 98 is to have a "flag day" after which IPv4 will no longer be
> used in the public internet.
> 
> This would put everyone back on equal footing vis a vis address
> distribution and resolve this issue.
> 
> I realize there are issues involved such as backwards compatability
> with older devices though V4/V6 gateways are well understood.
> 
> Another issue is "by who's authority?!"
> 
> But if for example the DNS root and Tier 1 etc (major connectivity
> providers) went along that would be authority enough. The objective is
> not to "outlaw" IPv4, just to make it exceedingly inconvenient for
> general use after that date (e.g., no more DNS resolutions from the
> root and others.)
> 
> For discussion's sake I will propose 14 November 2020 00:00GMT which
> happens to be Diwali 2020 and a Saturday so Sunday across the date
> line.
> 
> 

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