The IPv8 Plan
On Friday, February 27, 1998 10:09 AM, Pindar Wong[SMTP:pindar at hk dot super dot net] wrote:
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@PPS: Separate rant... please keep APNIC *only* dealing with numbers and AS
@issues. No names/DNS stuff please!
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In my opinion, Internet Resources are all very similar. Names and numbers
all eventually end up encoded as bits. The cooperative management of these
bits is more critical than separating blue bits from green bits.
In the IPv8 Plan, the global management of Internet Resources begins with
"names" simply because many humans can more easily identify with symbolic
ASCII strings, as opposed to decimal or hex numbers.
The IPv8 Plan focuses on developing a *structured* Root, which does not
exist in the current IPv4 legacy Internet. With this structured Root, both
names and numbers can be allocated to various regions in the world to
help form a world structure for Internet governance.
The structured Root, revolves around 8 regions or confederations. They
are numbered as follows:
0 - Legacy Internet, R&D, Education, Area-Codes, Etc.
1 - North America (U.S., Mexico, Canada)
2 - South America, Central America and the Caribbean
3 - England, Europe, Scandanavia and Russia
4 - The Pacific Rim, China and Southeast Asia
5 - Asia, Africa and the Middle East
6 - Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific
7 - Vehicles, Boats, Spaceships, Ham Radio, etc.
The IPv8 Plan focuses on the TOP 2,048 TLDs in use in the world.
These TLDs are grouped into the above regions, 256 per region.
This helps to provide a coupling of Domain Name Registries to
a light-weight structure for Internet Governance which is clearly
lacking around the world.
Once this structured Root matures, the 8 regions and the 2,048
"domains" can all join to help create a truely cooperative system
where Internet Resources are managed in a fair and equitable manner.
This can include IPv8 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses.
In the case of IPv8 addresses the mapping is easy. Each of the
2,048 "Resource Management Domains" (RMDs) can be allocated
a block of address space equivalent to the ENTIRE current 32-bit
legacy Internet. They can then manage that as they see fit.
Likewise, the IPv4 space can be allocated to the 2,048 RMDs via
a simple distributed allocation scheme. This effectively takes the
IPv4 space and hands chunks of it to these RMDs who can then
be the trustees. No central, heavy-handed management is needed.
As APNIC evolves, I hope that you consider the IPv8 Plan. While
I understand that some people feel that names and numbers are
worlds apart, in the big Internet, they may come back together.
When they are brought back together then people may once
again begin to work together. This is what will be required to
have an Internet that works and serves the world into the next
century.
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI
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