[ga] The best IPvX deal ever ?
A proposition has been made (San Juan, Sebastien Bachollet) which starts being discussed in diplomatic circles and I would like to see commented by GA Members. This proposition is generous, responsible, feasible, of common interest, but may have some objections. This proposition is that USA and Europe give the pool of their remaining IPv4 addresses to the other RIRs and start by force to only allocate IPv6 addresses, while decreasing the address shortage urgency for less developped areas until they can plan to benefit from the acquired experience and most probable industrial cost reductions. This would probably call for one year or two for this to be formalized, permitting to inform American and European users and ISPs and implement solutions under an equal opportunity and technical pressure basis. For once third world countries would not pay for the cost of the developed countries innovation. Also developed countries would be used as test beds, permitting market stabilized IPv6 solutions to further deploy in other areas at lower cost. It could also reduce the cost of the technical transition, due to a clear market transition. The current ROAP debate at IETF/IAB shows that IPv6 is not yet fully stabilized, this means that there would be no real advantage to USA and Europe during the transition period, while the other areas would stay with (for now) cheaper IPv4 systems, until IPv6 can become cheaper in their turn. The attention this proposition would receive by Governments could also help to finance some R&D along the RFC 3869 lines (call from IAB for non-commercial R&D financial sponsoring). The impact on users could be tremendous as individual host (home, mobile, hosting services), and myriads of possible domain name extensions (including semantic addressing) could bluntly develop. This would also restart the debate on the namespace (DNS, IPv4 and IPv6) ownership, and possibly help getting a better perspective of what ICANN should really do to protect itself (how an obsolete or inadequate ICANN can really protect the registrants). jfc
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