Subject: RE: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU?IPv6 Group] Date: Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:47:57AM -0500 Quoting Brandon Kim (brandon.kim@brandontek.com):
Interesting, why is it causing quite a stir? Is it because they are trying to allocate a large pool of addresses?
The ITU is sulking because noone cares about them anymore; everybody just runs IP instead of being obedient Phone Company customers and using E.164 numbers. By becoming provider of IPv6 space the ITU hopes to restore the notion of country code addresses and also to again become a power factor in datacom. It is no coincidence that this wacky idea centers around developing countries; since one country -- one vote still is the norm for much ITU work this is a way to move power distribution back from an economy driven model (where actual usage and amount of money invested in operations matter) to a national-state model where Internet-heavy information economies like North Korea or Bangladesh have equal voting rights as USA or Japan. -- Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina MN-1334-RIPE +46 705 989668 Will the third world war keep "Bosom Buddies" off the air?