Eric, Thank you for the post. After reading your post and rereading the Washing Post article I'm left with a couple of questions. (aka spinning head) Looking at this question from the narrow perspective of New York City, are you saying that IP4/6 address allocation to entities that might seek to compete with the existing bandwidth oligopoly is dependent on an address-freeing action from the ICANN? And thus the relevance to the NA-Discuss list, to answer Joly's question, is that if we're interested in improving bandwidth in New York, the list should bottom-up an enabling request to the ICANN board of directors? Tom Lowenhaupt On 1/27/2013 2:06 PM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
And this relates to NARALO how? Joly,
The provisioning of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in association with bandwidth in excess of 56kB in the national markets within the "NARALO region" is constrained by national law. In rural areas the constraint is implemented through a lack of universal access public policy, in urban agglomerations the constraint is implemented through monopoly grants of utility infrastructure for wireline placement, and restrictions on access to local exchange carrier infrastructure.
The project Glenn cited, which is the subject of interest of Susan Crawford and others working on the public policy of network access, and similar projects undertaken by public agencies in the NARALO region, provision IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in association with bandwidth in excess of 56kB, and do so independently of the economic organization (local monopoly) of the local franchise holders and advantages granted incumbent local exchange carriers.
So if, and only if, the ICANN Board may be benefited by advice that touches on IPv4 and/or IPv6 address allocation with conditions associated with (a) prefix announcement to the default free zone and (b) bandwidth in excess of 56kB in the North American region, then some relationship between the bylaws role of "At Large" and its geographical subdivision and experiments in the technologies of addresses-and-conditions and initiatives in their availabilities in North America nominally exists.
I hope this answers your initial question. If so, then I hope that you may see that address allocation with announcement and link characteristic conditions is fundamental to equity of access policy.
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