[ppml] Effects of explosive routing table growth on ISP behavior

[Stephen Sprunk]

Thus spake <michael.dillon at bt.com>
>> On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 08:54 -0500, Brian Johnson wrote:
>> > MY ENTIRE POINT IS THAT ARIN NEEDS TO STAY OUT OF
>> > ROUTING POLICY!
>
>> Is it just RIRs that have no business being involved in
>> routing-policy or do you resist any coordination of
>> routing-policies between DFZ operators? Suppose a market
>> emerges and it must be regulated, how do you enforce
>> regulations without a stick? If the RIRs can't advise
>> operators on routing-policies, who can?
>
> This is a silly comment. The RIRs have no business in routing
> policy because they do not have the expertise, and the true
> stakeholders in member companies are not involved in the RIRs.
> The RIRs have no competent advice to give an ISP on routing
> policy.

Perhaps I'm cynical, but I believe if the industry doesn't show more 
leadership and self-regulation, we're going to end up regulated by 
outsiders.  The question may not be "are the RIRs competent to do this" but 
rather "are the RIRs less incompetent than the other options."  As 
horrifying as the thought of turning control of the DFZ over to PPML/NANOG 
may be, it's slightly less horrifying than turning it over to Congress and 
the FCC -- or the UN.  IMHO, as always.

Another take is that if the RIRs _were_ involved in routing policy, the 
appropriate stakeholders and competent engineers would show up.

S

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