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)...
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