On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Deepak Jain wrote: > ITU is already acknowledging that BGP isn't its baby, so it has nothing to say there. Yes, that was the successful (for us) outcome of the meeting, which would not have been the case had we not been prepared and had people there. Just to explain the general danger here... The ITU is the standards body in which international spectrum allocations and satellite lots are negotiated. No industrialized country will withdraw from that. Because it's an international treaty organization, member countries are bound to enforce the outcome of its decisions within their jurisdictions, regardless of whether they agreed with the decision or not. If the ITU had decided to take the BGP spec from the IETF, the IETF could easily have told them to take a hike, but national governments could not have done so, and that would put national governments in the very uncomfortable position of having to try to enact or support that change in law somehow. With the BGP spec, this all seems a bit ridiculous and abstract, but with IP allocation, the danger is a little more immediate. The decision on that will mostly be made in mid-March. -Bill