On Aug 14, 2008, at 9:47 AM, brett watson wrote:
We're lacking the authority and delegation model that DNS has, I
think?
If one were to ignore layer 9 politics, it could be argued the
authority/delegation models between DNS and address space are quite
analogous.
DNS:
IANA maintains "." ("dig @ns.iana.org . axfr") and delegates portions
of the namespace to top-level domain registries
Top-level domain registries delegate parts of their namespaces to
second-level domain registries (typically end users)
Address space:
IANA maintains the top-level address registry (http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/
and http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-unicast-address-
assignments) and delegates portions of the address space to RIRs.
RIRs delegate parts of their address space to LIRs/ISPs/end users.
Of course, ignoring layer 9 politics can be a bit challenging.
Regards,
-drc