RE: IPv8 and Regional Registries
On Saturday, February 28, 1998 11:08 AM, John Curran[SMTP:jcurran at bbnplanet dot com] wrote:
@Jim,
@
@First, thanks for not attaching another list of the IPv8
@identifier space (I have several at this point).
@
@One comment regarding your reference:
@
@>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>
@
@I actually view the CENTR proposal as confirmation of the
@distinction between IP allocation and DNS allocation issues.
@The folks at RIPE (who have dealt with both for years) opted
@to create a distinct organization to deal with DNS issues
@rather than overload the RIPE NCC. This is recognition that
@there are different interested parties, even if we all share
@a common root authority.
@
Upon further research, it appears that the RIPE CENTR proposal
comes at a time when "IP-funded Regional Registries" are doing some
soul-searching. They have to question how long they will last
trying to "sell" (rent/lease/delegate/allocate take your pick) numeric
integers to people for high prices under their monopoly arrangement.
They have to adjust their plans because the U.S. Government's
Green Paper process will reopen the issues of why these private
companies (RIPE, APNIC, ARIN) have been granted a monopoly
and have fixed prices by coordinating with each other. As an example,
ARIN people openly have admitted that their pricing was based
on RIPE and APNIC, not their costs or customer willingness to
pay.
In the case of RIPE and APNIC, they have to take into account
the fact that ARIN is being positioned to control the lucrative
.ARPA TLD. Even though people were mislead that ARIN had
nothing to do with TLDs, they quietly keep forgetting that someone
has to delegate from .ARPA. NSI does not do that, ARIN does.
In my opinion, a more healthy business model exists when
a company in the Registry Industry starts with a TLD and then
helps to manage IP addresses. This is like a bank starting
with savings accounts and loans and then adding trust services.
It is hard to run a business solely on a limited product and/or
service. As we have seen, with the Regional IP Registries, the
end result is inflated prices to pay for the high-priced staff,
their networks and servers and their world travel perks.
It appears that people at RIPE can see that the future of
the Registry Industry will be grounded in TLDs. They have
to get into that business if they want to save their IP
address registry business. APNIC will likely have to do
the same thing. Both RIPE and APNIC have missed out
on the .ARPA TLD. Thus, they will have to cultivate some
others. Therefore, it makes sense for RIPE to be getting
into the middle of the TLD evolution. Whether they do it
as a separate company does not matter. RIPE is RIPE.
-
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI
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