At 12:18 AM 8/3/2012, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
Exactly. It is intended to defeat the Internet's historical growth model
of independence from national administrations and monopolies, by imposing
a geographical addressing scheme. Since the Internet actually works with
a topological addressing scheme, the effect is to force the topology
to be congruent with the geography. If you want central control, that's
Yes. However that message is not reaching the
people who are part of national administrations.
At 12:25 AM 8/3/2012, Patrik Fältström wrote:
The key here is control.
SAAG [1] might consider working on that Worst
Common Practice document to explain to countries
how they should "cut off" the Internet (
http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/84/slides/slides-84-irtfopen-1.pdf ). :-)
If I am not mistaken the control points are
already in place in one or more countries. The
key may be control. It may also be a desire to
address a problem which people consider as important.
Regards,
-sm
1. There is generally one of more interesting
presentations at SAAG. I don't know how the Security ADs make that happen.