FW: IPv8 and Regional Registries

[Jim Fleming <JimFleming@doorstep.unety.net>]

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From: 	Jim Fleming[SMTP:JimFleming]
Sent: 	Saturday, February 28, 1998 8:18 AM
To: 	MILIS APPLE; 'Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim'
Cc: 	'Tony Rutkowski'; 'braden@ISI.EDU'; 'Brian E Carpenter'; 'Gordon 
Cook'; 'Don Mitchell'; 'Dave Farber'; 'Don Heath'; 'Christian Huitema'; 
'Ira_C._Magaziner@oa.eop.gov'; 'John Curran'; 'Pindar Wong'; 'Jon Postel'; 
'Randy Bush'; 'Richard J. Sexton'; 'Scott Bradner'; 'Steve Wolff'; 'vinton 
g. cerf'; 'Eric Weisberg'
Subject: 	IPv8 and Regional Registries

On Saturday, February 28, 1998 7:00 AM, Rahmat M. 
Samik-Ibrahim[SMTP:rms46@geocities.com] wrote:
@Hello:
@
@- Would someone please convince me that "regional registries" are
@  the most effective/efficient way ? Are there any other options?
@  Any URLs that have this information ?
@

In my opinion, you need a combination of "regional", "virtual", "cyber", 
etc.

In the IPv8 Plan, we start by recognizing the top 2,048 TLDs in use in
the world. This helps to "structure" the Root. Once structured, these
TLDs become the hooks upon which many Internets can grow from a
governance point of view. This can support regional, virtual, cyber, etc.

You can read more about IPv8 in various places. <http://IPv8.vrx.net>
is one source. If you have a TLD, by definition you are included in the
plan. The TLD "authority" is automatically delegated a full 32 bit IPv8
address space as well as parts of the IPv4 address space.

With the IPv8 Plan, there is no need for a heavy-handed, centralized
dictator (or king) to make all of the decisions. The governance begins
in a natural way by distributing the major resources in the design of
the structured Root. People in "regional registries" do not want this.
They want to make money off of controlling those resources and
making you pay for them.

People have "sold" the concept of Regional Registries on the premise
that domain names and IP addresses are not related. ARIN was sold
to U.S. Government officials this way. This was accepted because it
helped to place NSI in a better position to avoid anti-trust scrutiny
from the DOJ and DOC. The people that did this solved a short-term
problem and did not look at the big picture. Fortunately, the U.S.
Government's so-called Green Paper will re-open these issues.

For those people that still think that Regional Registries have nothing
to do with Domain Names. I suggest that you read the following
RIPE CENTR Proposal. <http://www.ripe.net/docs/ripe-177.html>

Thanks for your time...


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Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI