Walu,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Walubengo J <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div>Thanx Mwende for the link,</div>
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<div>...but cant help but share what transpired in today's morning session in the Plenary.� The discussion on critical internet resources brought out the daggers from both ITU (Internaitional Telcomms Union) and ICANN (Internet Coporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).</div>
</td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br>Indeed, good theatre!<br>�<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
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<div>ICANN currently controls the management of IP numbers,</div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br>You are almost correct, it's really the RIR communities who "control the management". IANA is the Central Registry, and IANA is run under contract from the USA.<br>
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<div> the unique identifiers necessary to connect devices on the internet - and as the current numbers (ver 4) continue getting depleted, ITU (read governments/regulators) have seen an opportunity to grab control over the next version of numbers (ver 6).� ITU basically feels that the monopoly ICANN has over the management of IP numbers should be broken - and equitably distributed accross governments, to be managed ultimately by individual countries (most likely regulators).</div>
</td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br><br>My sense is that what the ITU wants is NOT to compete with ICANN, but they would like to be a (global) registry under ICANN.� This is inline with what the ITU guy said.<br>
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<div>...which reminded me, there are some clauses in the currently�proposed�CCK regulations about Users/ISPs reporting the IP numbers of their servers/email systems. Could this be a coincidence or the first stage in a concerted effort in line with ITU of sharing control over these numbers</div>
</td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br>This sounds ominous, but is orthogonal to todays contretemps.<br>�</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div>....is this a good�thing for the industry?�</div>
<div>�</div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br>NO.<br><br>There is a "<u><font color="#0000ff" size="3"><a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2009View&wspid=271">Managing Internet Addresses: Global and regional viewpoint</a></font></u>" workshop on now in Room 4.<br>
<br><br></div></div>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." �Jon Postel<br>