[sig-policy] رد: prop-051: Global policy for the allocation of the remaining IPv4 address space

["Hytham EL Nakhal" <hytham@mcit.gov.eg>]

Title: Re: [sig-policy] prop-051: Global policy for the allocation of the remaining IPv4 address space

Hi David,

 

It's great to hear from you..

For the first point: you are right it's fairly small. and I think this point the RIR teams could reply for it as they have database and statistics which enable them to know whether these small minority of members are NIR or not.. for my knowledge as we deal here with FLAG, SPRINT, Teleglobe, and others international carriers which have offices in Egypt, they don't use IP addresses from AfriNIC.

For the second point: That's a very good question, so we have a debate about the value of N, what is the suitable value of N? Do you notice that the modified version of prop-046 (version 2) which have been submitted lately to APNIC is similar to prop-051 except in the value of N which is 1 . So I think it's better to leave the value of N to be open for discussion. However, for me N=5 is suitable specially for Large RIRs like APNIC, RIPE as from IANA website you can notice that in 2005 APNIC got 3 /8 blocks, in 2006 got another 3 /8 , and in 2007 till now got 5 /8 . And for Ripe in 2005 got 3 /8 , in 2006 got another 3 /8, and in 2007  till now got 4 /8 . For ARIN in 2005 got 4 /8 and in 2006 got another 4 /8. So the year by year demand growth is clear and the average is around 3.5 /8 blocks for each RIR which lead us to expect that N=5 will be suitable to avoid secondary market specially at the critical time (when IANA announce the IPv4 run-out) when many will think about selling their IPv4 blocks for money and using NAT. At that time RIR could face this second market for a time till the market become stable & almost high percentage of members begin their transition phase to IPv6.

For the third point: That's the role of Regulator (as I'm working for Telecom Regulatory Authority), anyone like to establish an ISP (even shell) company should get a license from TRA and this license is not allowed for foreign companies (NIR) it's only for Egyptian companies and if as you said that national large scale ISPs will pay money to become partner of the existing local ISP , I think it'll be worth for them to pay this money in upgrading their own network to support IPv6 and avoid the hassle of paper working for partnership & paying (a lot of) money for other ISP... as it'll be obvious for local ISPs that this partnership is for IP addresses no more so they'll ask for more money than they worth to make it..

For the forth point: As i mention in second point that RIRs need time for market to become stable and know exactly how to deal with that second market, what policies they need, regulations,...etc. for sure it needs time, so for helping RIR and its members to find that time ,IMHO, IANA shouldn't leave RIRs without /8 blocks suddenly !!!

For the fifth point: Ya, we'll need IPv6-to-IPv4 gateways and vice versa. So we do still need IPv4.. which means we couldn't say for new comers in the following three years we don't have IPv4 for you, go and use IPv6 only !!! they will live in isolated islands.. It's the role of RIR to plan  how to afford IPv4 in the next years and this proposal is aiming to help in that if it get consensus..

 

I'd like to thank you for your care and following up the discussion. Cooperation between all RIRs regarding this situation of course will have its good impact on all Internet users all over the world.

 

Thanks & Best Regards,

Haitham..

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ÇáãæÖæÚ: Re: [sig-policy] prop-051: Global policy for the allocation of the remaining IPv4 address space

Hi,

Sorry for the slow response.

On Aug 11, 2007, at 9:16 AM, Hytham EL Nakhal wrote:
> David Conrad:
>> Indeed, but it isn't clear to me how this proposal helps that 
>> situation. The ISPs with the most power are also the ones who 
>> probably already have offices/subsidiaries/partners/etc. in Latin 
>> America and Africa. Unless AfriNIC and LACNIC become _extremely_ 
>> stringent on membership and invest heavily in verification 
>> mechanisms, I don't see the larger ISPs even blinking at this sort 
>> of thing. Just the cost of doing business...
>
> Also the same question: What is the percentage of these large ISPs 
> that have many offices in different RIR regions with regard to the 
> whole ISPs in all RIR regions ?

Probably fairly small.  However, it is probably worth noting that the 
majority of address space at the RIRs is consumed by a small minority 
of the members.

> and to avoid the probable second market for IP addresses it’s 
> better to insure at least 5 /8 blocks for each RIR.

Why do you think 5 /8s for each RIR will avoid a secondary market?

> And each RIR is capable for regulate distribution and assignment of 
> its pool in order to avoid that situation as much as possible… for 
> Egypt there is three Large ISPs has offices in other RIR than 
> AfriNICand they do use their IPs and AS they got from AfriNIC.

I am not fully aware of the situation in Africa (nor in Latin America 
and the Caribbean), but I would be surprised to find that there 
aren't countries in which it is possible to establish shell companies 
that do little more than establish a legal presence in that country.  
Further, it doesn't even have to be a shell, it could as easily be a 
partnership with an existing company, including an established ISP.  
All it takes is a bit of money, which large scale ISPs generally have.

> ISPs in developed countries will do whatever is necessary to obtain 
> the IPv4 to continue their business and not transit to IPv6, 
> whereas ISPs in developing countries which are less in technical 
> capabilities and face financial problems are required to transit to 
> IPv6 faster than ISPs in developed countries .. Is it the fairness 
> from your point of view ?

No, I wouldn't consider it fair.  However, from the perspective of 
the large scale ISPs, it is just business.  In any event, the point 
I've been trying to make is that regardless of what the RIRs do, a 
secondary market will almost certainly establish itself and it would 
probably be best for the RIRs to figure out how to deal with that 
fact rather than pretending business realities don't apply.

> Please No NAT encourage, Philip can reply better than me for NAT 
> advantages and disadvantages.. but Also NAT cost a lot of money as 
> it requires special hardware cards (expensive one) in some routers 
> to be able to do NATing

Given IPv6 is not backwards compatible with IPv4, you'll need some 
form of network address translation to allow folks who are IPv4-only 
to talk to sites that are IPv6-only and vice versa.  The future is 
_full_ of some form of NAT.

Regards,
-drc