"A.M. Rutkowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would argue that no one should have "the authority to make exclusive
> assignment of Internet identifiers." Indeed, there is no such thing.
> You can today use any identifier you choose - and many institutions do.
> However, unless you have made special arrangements, your traffic might
> not end up in the right place. As a shared user network, the users
> vote as to whose identifier system is used and on what terms, not
> some higher authority - ICANN or otherwise.
In response to Ronda, what Tony is saying that the DNS and IP
addresses used now exist more so by convention than by some fixed
notion. For example, if all parties agreed, the IP address space used
by what is generally called the Internet could be increased by several
orders of magnitude (and one day with IPv6, hopefully it will be).
But on the 6bone, people are using IPv6 addresses and interacting just
as we do.
--gregbo
