[ppml] [GLOBAL-V6] How to get a IPv6 /32 the cheap way: go to AFRINIC

[David Conrad]

Hi,

On Jun 22, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Kevin Loch wrote:
> David Conrad wrote:
>> On Jun 22, 2007, at 11:17 AM, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
>>> RIRs can be considered, and in fact they are, critical
>>> infrastructures,
>>
>> Why?
>>
> in-addr.arpa, ip6.arpa and probably more in the future if
> we ever get crypto authenticated/validated routing. To a lesser  
> extent whois.

Sorry, I was a bit obtuse.  I was trying to imply that as far as I  
know, there is no formal definition of "critical infrastructure" that  
is applicable across all regions.

As an aside, this would appear to be another case of confusion  
between allocation policy and routing policy...

Rgds,
-drc