[address-policy-wg] Re: RIPE Access Policy Change Request to allow allocations to critical infrastructure

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote:

> >I don't claim that ARIN or ICANN or DENIC are not special, or are not
> >important for the functioning of the Internet as a whole.
>
> ICANN isn't special. They don't offer any infrastructure services.
>
> However, ARIN and RIPE maintain resgistry databases which are
> published in the form of a whois directory. This is part of the
> Internet infrastructure. DENIC hosts the .de top level domain
> and provides an authoritative DNS service. That is also part
> of the infrastructure.

Agreed. Forgot to mention APNIC and LACNIC. RIR's databases are crucial
for us "Internet wrench-guys"...


> If an organization wants special treatment, first they have
> to show us that they operate a service that is a part of the
> Internet infrastructure. Then they have to show that this service
> is special enough to be called "critical".

Globally critical or Regionally critical?
I think the scope of the "critical" part is an important issue...


> You are right that everyone forwards packets and that is not
> special enough. But what if someone operates a SIP network to
> carry VoIP calls for 112 (999) calls? Maybe that would make a
> part of their network into critical infrastructure. When making
> policy it is best to think ahead into the future a bit and make
> sure that they new policy will work for a few years, at least.
>
> --Michael Dillon
>
>

Regards,

./Carlos
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