Dear all, If you would like to follow live reporting of the 4th IGF in Sharm el Sheikh through various new media: twitter, flicker, blip.tv, IGF session transcripts. Available at; http://www.netvibes.com/igf09#Welcome Kind regards Mwende
Thanx Mwende for the link, ...but cant help but share what transpired in today's morning session in the Plenary. The discussion on critical internet resources brought out the daggers from both ITU (Internaitional Telcomms Union) and ICANN (Internet Coporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). ICANN currently controls the management of IP numbers, the unique identifiers necessary to connect devices on the internet - and as the current numbers (ver 4) continue getting depleted, ITU (read governments/regulators) have seen an opportunity to grab control over the next version of numbers (ver 6). ITU basically feels that the monopoly ICANN has over the management of IP numbers should be broken - and equitably distributed accross governments, to be managed ultimately by individual countries (most likely regulators). ...which reminded me, there are some clauses in the currently proposed CCK regulations about Users/ISPs reporting the IP numbers of their servers/email systems. Could this be a coincidence or the first stage in a concerted effort in line with ITU of sharing control over these numbers....is this a good thing for the industry? walu. --- On Mon, 11/16/09, mwende njiraini <mwende.njiraini@gmail.com> wrote: From: mwende njiraini <mwende.njiraini@gmail.com> Subject: [kictanet] 4th IGF live reporting To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Monday, November 16, 2009, 12:57 PM Dear all, If you would like to follow live reporting of the 4th IGF in Sharm el Sheikh through various new media: twitter, flicker, blip.tv, IGF session transcripts. Available at; http://www.netvibes.com/igf09#Welcome Kind regards Mwende -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: jwalu@yahoo.com Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/jwalu%40yahoo.com
Walu, On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
Thanx Mwende for the link,
...but cant help but share what transpired in today's morning session in the Plenary. The discussion on critical internet resources brought out the daggers from both ITU (Internaitional Telcomms Union) and ICANN (Internet Coporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).
Indeed, good theatre!
ICANN currently controls the management of IP numbers,
You are almost correct, it's really the RIR communities who "control the management". IANA is the Central Registry, and IANA is run under contract from the USA. the unique identifiers necessary to connect devices on the internet - and as
the current numbers (ver 4) continue getting depleted, ITU (read governments/regulators) have seen an opportunity to grab control over the next version of numbers (ver 6). ITU basically feels that the monopoly ICANN has over the management of IP numbers should be broken - and equitably distributed accross governments, to be managed ultimately by individual countries (most likely regulators).
My sense is that what the ITU wants is NOT to compete with ICANN, but they would like to be a (global) registry under ICANN. This is inline with what the ITU guy said.
...which reminded me, there are some clauses in the currently proposed CCK regulations about Users/ISPs reporting the IP numbers of their servers/email systems. Could this be a coincidence or the first stage in a concerted effort in line with ITU of sharing control over these numbers
This sounds ominous, but is orthogonal to todays contretemps.
....is this a good thing for the industry?
NO. There is a "*Managing Internet Addresses: Global and regional viewpoint<http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2009View&wspid=271> *" workshop on now in Room 4. -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
2009/11/16 mwende njiraini <mwende.njiraini@gmail.com>
Dear all, If you would like to follow live reporting of the 4th IGF in Sharm el Sheikh through various new media: twitter, flicker, blip.tv, IGF session transcripts. Available at; http://www.netvibes.com/igf09#Welcome Kind regards Mwende
Thanks Mwende for this link. I'm finding it informative.
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