2007/11/6, Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>:
"Izumi AIZU" <iza@anr.org> writes:
2007/11/6, Franck Martin <franck.martin@gmail.com>:
I'd like also to see something like:
"ensure that a uniform policy is adopted by all RIRs"
To be clear (as John has said) each RIR has its own PDP and is its own entity. Today, there is no way to enforce that each RIR has a "uniform" policy. This was discussed explicitely at the ARIN meeting last month (as a problem of sorts), where it was pointed out that on IPv6, after all the RIRs adopted the same "globally-coordinated" policy, each RIR started making individual tweaks to it. This is by definition allowed by the RIR/PDP structure, and indeed, people sometimes say that is the an important benefit of having different RIRs - one gets regional diversity.
(Personally, I support that to some degree, except that it can also clash with the notion that we have only one Internet, and that it really is more important to keep the global nature in mind than focussing on regional differences. Local/regional differences can easily be made to the detriment of the global whole.)
Is there any wording that captures both the autonomous approach of each RIR's, and globally coordinated aspects? Or, I might suggest that we do not touch that _at this point_ as this is, to me, the first statement and we may go further as policy discussions go deep or more specific.
"reserve a pool of IPv4 addresses for future emergency allocation" Emergency to be decided at ICANN level.
Personally, I am not comfortable with this. for many reasons.
So there is still a large room before reaching the consensus, I guess.
Finally, I assume this statement is going to the ASO (or the RIRs) rather than the ICANN board. If this statement is to go to the board, exactly what do you think the ICANN board can do with it? I think folk need to understand what role ICANN plays in this space and how much influence it really has. Making requests that cannot actually be acted upon just leads to frustration (on all sides) and doesn't usually help anyone. :-(
The tone of this statement is generally geared torwards "adderss community" that includes RIRs and NRO/ASO, but also NIRs and LIRs, and to some extenet governments for public policy awareness. ICANN Board? Yes, in a sense we cannot ignore, but at this stage we are NOT asking the Board for specific action. I think that is, at least, too early now. izumi
Thomas
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