On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:16:53 +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum said:
not arise with respect to IPv6. I have discussed with some industry experts my idea to reserve a block of IPv6 addresses for allocation by authorities of countries, that is, assigning a block to a country at no cost, and letting the country itself manage this kind of address in IPv6. By assigning addresses to countries, we will enable any particular user to choose their preferred source of addresses: either the countryassigned ones or the region/international-assigned ones."
Down side: This seems to cater to those places with an incumbent telco monopoly - if there's competition, we probably long term end up with pretty massive deaggregation anyhow. (Imagine 3 telcos, each with their own pipe across the border that land at different places....) Up side: It's a lot easier to track down all the netblocks said telco has when you decide you're fed up with their non-stellar abuse@ response. At least we'd minimize the accidental collateral damage we see now in IPv4 when a site that's fed up with Chinese/Korean spam blocks the whole /8 and takes part of Australia or New Zealand with it.... What will probably actually happen - the incumbent telco will get their prefix, and the abusive users will find ways to get an announcement of their sub-allocation of a regional prefix anyhow (so we end up with the worst of both worlds)...