[address-policy-wg] RIPE Access Policy Change Request to allow allocations to critical infrastructure
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Jeff Williams
jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com
Thu Jan 8 22:33:02 CET 2004
Michael and all, There is no such thing you call "tyranny of the majority", which has been a mantra of yours and some ICANN staff and BoD. Majority of stakeholders has always ruled or determined what policy and/or policies they want/desire. Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote: > >> Suggestion... RIPE will allocate /24 blocks from the IPv4 address > >> range that was once called "Class C" address space > >> for use by services that are part of the Internet's > >> critical infrastructure. These blocks are for services > >> that will exist for the forseeable future, are used > >> freely by many organizations, and are likely to outlive > >> the lifetime of the organization currently operating the > >> service. > > >That's not helpful, as it centers around "critical infrastructure". How > >is the RIPE NCC supposed to evaluate how "criticial" something is? > > A workable policy would need to have definitions of "infrastructure" and > "critical" that RIPE can use to evaluate any requests. > > >.de reachability is mostly meaningless for the majority of the > >Internet users (as are all other ccTLDs). > > Reachability of .com and .net is also mostly meaningless for the > majority of the Internet users. They only care if they can get to > .cn sites because they can only read one language. The Internet has > never recognized the tyranny of the majority so I don't think we > should be worrying about this today. > > --Michael Dillon Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!) "Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others" - Pierre Abelard "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com Contact Number: 214-244-4827 or 214-244-3801
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