On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 15:52:56 +0200, "Latif Ladid (The New Internet based on IPv6)" <latif.ladid@village.uunet.lu> said:
The technical community should fix this one before the ITU sees this as another chance to have a political say on the IPv6 addressing. These things leak fast. My advice is that ARIN should seriously own this issue before the ITU turns it to a sovereignty issue, which they could for sure win this time. I know one of their noodles is sizzling at it.
ARIN, and all the other RIRs, represent the interests of people in their region. Anybody who is interested, yourself included, is welcome to suggest changes to current policies. I'm sure RIR-staff are happy to guide you through the process. However, to succeed you need to convince the RIR community that there is a need for a change. It's interesting to see how people are worried about ITU involvement. I share some concerns, but remember; the ITU and their OSI protocols were once at the core of everything in large-scale networking. Those were left behind because they were not flexible enough to keep up with the pace of internet growth in the '90s. ITU as an organization is just as inflexible today as they were 10 or 15 years ago, maybe even worse. To consider ITU a threat to the internet community speaks heaps about how the community has deteriorated over the last decade. Parts of the community are already mirroring ITU behaviour, with or without ITU-involvement. //per -- Per Heldal http://heldal.eml.cc/