Gary -
It is unclear if/when such an outcome will occur, but the potential of such an
endstate highlights the importance of being involved in governance activities
of one (or more) of the community-based RIR organizations – as a preparatory
measure should such a change occur in the future.
Note that there is a near-universal expectation of governments that forbearance
of public regulation (due to industry self-regulation) is only warranted when
the private alternative covers all of those engaged in similar business, so
your expressed trajectory has a sound basis.
Best wishes (& Happy Holidays!),
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers
On Nov 22, 2023, at 10:02 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmas...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 8:14 PM William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote:
It still seems unwise, but not entirely insane.
I would expect that at some point in the future
that many/all of the major players will require
RIR validated routing information, and whether
that is due to regulation or best practices for
which the majors will not want to become liable
for ignoring (and "think of the children") is hard
to know. In the end I suspect we are likely just
trying to discern when that date will be, not the
eventual end result ("not today" is not, really,
a valid target goal).
