Actually I don't think that "ICANN runs IANA". The USG "runs" IANA being ICANN a contractor to fund and manage its operations. I'd hope that besides being sort of the "custodian" of the DNSSEC root keys and in charge of somehow manage the process for their generation, ICANN does not assume any day-to-day operational role of any piece of Internet infrastructure. Going back to the IP address space, some people still argue that there is not a big compelling business case to put IPv6 deployment as a top priority, ie. how much money I can make by doing it ? others (as the Japanese since day one) see it as an strategic move to have a technological and market advantage, but overall the rate of deployment and adoption is very low, particularly in the US.
From the different pieces that are part of the Internet infrastructure puzzle is easy to note that the DNS has been highly monetized, given that it has created a multibillion dollar industry, IP address space by itself has no value given that without routing an IP prefix is useless, so there is some monetization associated with routing (have you ever seen how funny some peering agreements are ?), now scarcity of IPv4 space will make it a rare commodity, then those who still need address space to keep growing at a lower cost than having to deploy IPv6 will be open to trade and put some value to it. In the past (I've been involved in many ISP/WH acquisitions) IP address space was not considered an asset with incidence on the valuation of the company to be acquired, we even went to the painful process to renumber big chunks of old IPv4 space for better CIDR aggregation, today some acquisitions are driven and valued based on how big an IPv4 address chunk the prospect company may have.
There is not much money to milk out of the IP address space as it is from DNS, then the ICANN ecosystem will not pay much attention to it. I don't think that you will ever see any T-Shirts with an IPv6 prefix as you see dotSH1T or similar being wear on ICANN's meetings. What ICANN can do ? Probably not much, it may probably put some budget to be "politically correct" and do some noise promoting the adoption of IPv6, and at least make sure that the DNS infrastructure supports it (there are still many TLDs that have ZERO servers with IPv6 addresses), My .02 -J On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Franck Martin <franck.martin@gmail.com> wrote:
"ICANN runs IANA" the same way that "ISOC runs IETF"
Once you understand that, you understand why IP is never really on ICANN agenda.
----- Original Message ----- From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: "At-Large Worldwide" <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Sent: Wednesday, 18 January, 2012 12:36:17 PM Subject: Re: [At-Large] Now, for the next big thing
Probably no interest until somebody figures how to Trademark an IP address and claim ownership to it
I fear you're right, which just shows how totally corrupt and venal ICANN is.
ICANN runs IANA, which is the ultimate allocator of IP space. If they were doing their job, which they somewhat did when Vint was chair, they would be pushing IPv6 implementation to limit the instability due to kludges as people overload their limited IPv4 space. _______________________________________________ At-Large mailing list At-Large@atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large
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