Hi Gert, On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:58:22 +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
I strongly think that the latter kind should not be able to get PI space easily, for a one-time-fee, and burden the *recurring cost* for their convenience on everybody else.
Your approach sounds like "Planwirtschaft" and generating jobs for buerocrates ("right-to-use PI certification agency auditing office supervisor" ;-/ How about taking the potential money received for PI to finance a better BGP / routing technology or at least memory for poor ISP's ? If we would handle other network technological issues like the "PI is impossible - large tables are impossible" one, we probably would have a "right-to-use-a-9600-baud-modem certification agency" instead of DSL, just because someone would argument that it is impossible to have more than 10 high speed channels on a standard 1000 phone lines copper cable ... Do you remember the old "private modems are bad and will destroy the phone network" arguments from former Bundespost ? The PI routing issue is a technical challenge which cries for an technical solution (yes, large distributed databases do exist) and not for an additional administration. Best Regards Oliver Oliver Bartels F+E + Bartels System GmbH + 85435 Erding, Germany oliver@bartels.de + http://www.bartels.de + Tel. +49-8122-9729-0