[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2026-1: Taking IP To Other Planets (TIPTOP)

[Tony Li]

Hi Fernando,


>> There are only a handful of agencies.  That is not the issue.  The real problem occurs because they are geographically dispersed and would naturally get addresses from their local RIR. But when they use them on the moon, for example, they would not aggregate at all.   We might easily expect one prefix per mission.  Today, that’s not seriously problematic, but in the future, this could definitely become annoying.
> Why do we need this level of separation ? Geolocation or something similar would resolve this much easily. Creating a new stuff for such a small and specific need doesn't seem useful. There are alternatives that wouldn't involve all this.
> 

Do tell.  How do we get aggregation across diverse agencies?


>> Our job is not just to deal with the next few years, but to anticipate and provide for the long term.  i’d suggest that trying to plan 30 to 50 years into the future would be reasonable.  With that perspective, it is quite clear that recent decreases in the cost of launches has agencies planning for a new Renaissance in space exploration, complete with colonization by many vehicles and human beachheads, all fully interconnected.
> Still with the decrease of costs it is still quiet expensive to launch a mission so I don't believe we would expect a significant number that requires a totally different schema than we already have working and well established with the current RIRs. It doesn't justify.
> This is not going to be a major issue to any missions and to how internet on earth communicate to missions outside it.
> 

Well, then you doom us to a swamp in outer space.

Tony


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