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

[Tony Li]

Hi Joe,

>> 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.  


We have had little choice, given that we lack regulatory authority.


> 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").


In the specific case of outer space, that doesn’t seem like a pertinent force in the near term.


> 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.


Both are going to be irrelevant for routers in outer space, which will most likely just point default to Earth.

Tony