On Mar 3, 2010, at 6:38 AM, Leen Besselink wrote:
Not comparing this to the former-DDR or Chinese situation (please refer to my tin-foil remark above) a per-country specific prefix is not necessarily a bad thing and may even have an upside.
Care to explain what that could possibly be? (I simply don't see an upside to making it easy to censor the internet by national identity).
Maintenance of "GeoIP"-databases becomes easier and less error-prone ?
Um, you say that like it's a good thing.
Possible less out of date because of it.
True.
We've seen complaints about those many times on this list.
Yes, geolocation by IP is a fundamentally broken idea and process. That's, frankly, a good thing in my opinion. However, ignoring all of that for a moment, what makes you assume that CIRs would only delegate prefixes within their own nation under this scheme? I suspect several countries will likely be happy to sell or rent address space to the highest bidder. Owen