[address-policy-wg] Re: 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 22:46:13 CET 2004
Michael and all, Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote: > >The policy needs to balance everyones needs > > Yes. > > >(among that: "little extra routes in the DFZ"). > > DFZ (default free zone) = global routing table. > If someone can implement a solution by announcing a > shorter prefix from an existing netblock then there is > nothing that RIPE can do to change the number of routes > in the global routing table. > > >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. > > Yes. And a good policy would start by defining the fuzzy term so > that everyone understands the scope of the term when it is used > in the policy. > > >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. > > Yes. The word "critical" is a value judgement. Critical Internet > Infrastructure > is different from Critical National Infrastructure. In the USA they are > focusing on infrastructure that is critical to their nation. We should > look at infrastructure that is critical to the Internet, both globally > and in the RIPE region. Good! Your finnaly "getting it"! >:) > > > --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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