"JFC Morfin" <jefsey@jefsey.com> wrote:
In terms of Internet architecture this creates the opposition between the ICANN (de?)centralized vision and the distributed nature of the Internet. Today we have an ongoing discussion at the IETF (BEHAVE) where the question is about NAT66 (an IPv6:IPv6 NAT version - the Internet Draft is being introduced by very serious IETF leaders, in order to try to control what NAT could do under IPv6). The debate shows that NAT66 will not only be built and deploy, their features be much more developped than the IETF proposition, but that they will support a large diversity of IPv6 Realms - hence a large diversity of DNS roots.
Most of the IETF old members hope this will not go that way.
I've also been following the discussion on the IETF BEHAVE list with great interest. To tell you the truth, I wasn't quite sure about the initial reasons for the heated debate between the people for NAT66 and the people against NAT66. I took 24h to think about it and for a moment, came to the same conclusions about multiple DNS roots & multiple IPv6 realms. With NAT66, the concept of network number uniqueness which was a key proposed feature of IPv6, disappears. Then I thought again - and was taken back to the days when the Internet was not as well integrated as it is today. You know, the days when you needed to route your email through gateways & the like. Sure, there were many other networks out there, but you know what I found to be most amusing is that historically they all merged with the Internet. I am therefore neither "for" or "against" the idea of NAT66. I've seen several alternative DNS roots rise and fall. If organisations wish to launch their own Internet, their own root servers, their own interfacing with the current Internet through IPv6 NAT, sure, go ahead! Let the market decide what's best. Just: 1. don't ask me to pay for it, whether through my taxes or whatever 2. don't restrict the freedom I currently have in using today's Internet 3. don't impose your alternative network on me 4. don't take me back to the dark days of telco monopoly Warm regards, Olivier -- Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond, Ph.D Global Information Highway Ltd http://www.gih.com/ocl.html