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

[Joe Provo]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 08:23:18PM -0700, Tony Li wrote:
> Hi Fernando,
[snip]
> >> 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.
 
To be honest, that "doom" comes directly from relying
solely on operator choice and economic forces.  Based
upon the last 30+ years, this is teeing up an
interstellar swamp. My smudgy crystal ball is echoing
ICM issues from early NSFnet days and even the grand
old 1239 prefix filtering... which fell apart due to
economic forces (customers demanding deaggregation 
based "traffic engineering").

We should also look to expunge references to "global
routing table" and speak just to "default-free zone
(DFZ)" to cease implying specific stellar body scales.

Cheers!

Joe


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