[apnic-talk] Domain Names and IP Addresses
Many Internet leaders have tried to baffle government officials
by misleading them into thinking that domain names and IP
address allocations have nothing to do with each other. Over
and over this "party line" has been played out on mailing lists
whenever people want to try to end conversations they do not
like.
I have made the point several times that I think that Internet
Governance should begin from the base of TLDs via a structured
root. This distributes the control to a diverse world-wide
community. People who do not want to give up control do not
like this plan. Instead, they return to the "party line" that IP
addresses and domain names are separate.
This is hardly the case. As we have seen with RIPE
<ttp://www.ripe.net/centr/index.html> and now APNIC, the
organizations which claim to be IP addresses only, end up
in the middle of domain name issues[1]. They are able to make
policies and make them stick because they hold IP address
resource allocation as a lever.
In summary, while the leaders are telling people that IP
address resources and domain names are disjoint they are
working to set policies that impact both. I claim that they
have tried to separate the population in a divide and conquer
strategy but this has not worked. The U.S. Government has
easily been able to see that Internet Resource management
includes many things and they are intricately tied together.
Jim Fleming
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[1] @ http://teckla.apnic.net/annual_reports/1997/vital_stats.htm#c1
"Whether the Executive Council should make the final decision on whether
an organization requesting the xxNIC.NET domain is appropriate for
delegation to occur after which the Executive Council agreed that it was
their responsibility to make the decision;"
...
"Whether APNIC should contribute and/or support a survey of national top
level domains in the AP region, after which the decision was in the affirmative;"
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Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.net
IPv8 - Designed for the Rest of the Human Race
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