[address-policy-wg] Re: RIPE Access Policy Change Request to allow allocations to critical infrastructure
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Gert Doering
gert at space.net
Thu Jan 8 13:24:39 CET 2004
Hi, On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:01:09AM +0000, Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote: [..] > When some part of the infrastructure of the Internet is considered > to be critical, the people responsible for it will build it so that > it can never fail. They do this by applying fault tolerance techniques. > Anycasting DNS is a fault tolerance technique. DENIC is asking for > a policy that understands the need for fault tolerance when an > organization is managing part of the Internet's critical infrastructure. > > If this policy focuses on the fault tolerance technique then it > is doing the wrong things. Policies are not about technology. > RIPE policies are political agreements that balance the needs > of everyone in the RIPE community. This policy needs to focus > on defining which kinds of "critical infrastructure" are important > enough for the whole community to justify special allocations. The policy needs to balance everyones needs (among that: "little extra routes in the DFZ"). The policy does also need very clear-cut criteria to *decide* whether something meets the policy or not. Applying technical criteria is easy (easier, at least) than a fuzzy term like "critical infrastructure" that mean something different to whoever reads it. Commenting on your first example: for the USA, something might very well be a "critical infrastructure", like the US power grid, and *still* the rest of the world might not care much if it breaks down... - so the definition of "criticial infrastructure" is very much localized and fuzzy. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 57882 (57753) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster at Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299
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