Am going to assume that was a rhetorical question;) I believe that the services needed to allocate address space are indeed critical to continue expansion of the networks and to enabling ISPs to get their addresses. Some of the other services operated by RIR's include DNS for reverse delegation etc. are also in a similar category. So in as far as any of the registration systems and some of the related infrastructure are "Critical" then I think IANA and the RIRs are in a similar boat. Of course if any of our networks disappeared for a few hours life would go on.. In fact I remember a situation in the mid 90's when we had such a fun day at the RIPE NCC:) Most of the policies I've seen recognise this. So probably the most important measure of whether or not they are deemed critical is the fact that the community has decided that this is the case. John L. Crain On Jun 22, 2007, at 9:45 AM, David Conrad wrote:
On Jun 22, 2007, at 11:17 AM, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
RIRs can be considered, and in fact they are, critical infrastructures,
Why?
Rgds, -drc
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