RIPE CENTR Meeting - September 22, 1998

While some people are focusing on cancelling meetings,
we should note that the RIPE CENTR meeting will be
held September 22, 1998.

http://www.ripe.net/centr/meetings/centr-4/index.html

RIPE is one of the more open (and fair) organizations on the
Internet. Even though they are mostly focused on IPv4 allocations,
they have discovered the merits of being involved with the
evolution of TLDs. From an IPv8 point of view, this is a good
thing. People tried to divide the world by claiming that IP
addresses and domain names have nothing to do with
each other. That may be true from a technical sense but
is not the case from a business and industry point of view.

It is costly to have IP-only registries and those costs are
passed on to ISPs and the consumers. In my opinion, it is
better to have each of the TLD registries handle a small part
of the IP allocation load. This helps to keep the cost down,
to spread the resources around in a more fair and equitable
manner and helps facilitate the transition from IPv4 to IPv6.
This is essentially what IPv8 helps do.

Again, I suggest the real issues are with IP address
allocations. The TLD issues fall out once the IP
resources are allocated fairly. IP addresses are like
land and domain names are like billboards. The farmers
that control the land along the information superhighway
ultimately control the billboards on the highway.


Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.com
End-2-End: VPC(Java)---C+ at ---<IPv8>---C+ at ---(Java)VPC
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt
http://www.ddj.com/index/author/idx10133.htm








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