On 27 Nov 2004, at 23:23, Jonathan Brewer wrote:
Joe Abley wrote:
Who would run it? Who would decide its policies? How many endless streams of meetings would be required in order to get any kind of consensus, and who would pay for them?
This is where someone from InternetNZ should say: "It's our job. We'll do it."
As far as I can see, it's APNIC's job, and they're doing it pretty well already. There seem to be a lot of people assuming that APNIC are hard to deal with (or that the policies are unreasonable) without ever having tried to deal with them, or to find out what the policies actually are. The economics are pretty simple for ISPs and largish multi-homed companies: you can pay the cost of renumbering every time you change provider, or you can pay the membership fees at APNIC and obtain provider-independent resources. Choose the option that suits your budget. Regardless of how much someone might think that every two-person company deserves provider-independent address space, the unfortunate reality is that this doesn't scale (and the problem is the routing system, not address space scarcity). Joe