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Business Case for IPv6 - Part 1

• Comment posted May 07, 2012 10:27 pm PDT — by McTim
  AFAIK, there are zero RIRs that have zero addresses. In general, the "survival" notion is one that is appealing.  however, it has been around for over a decade and we are still in the single digits of v6 usage.

Google's Free Public DNS Load Tops VeriSign, Raising Dot-Com Contract Tender Question

• Comment posted Feb 15, 2012 6:20 am PST — by McTim
  Hi George, While I agree that giving a monopoly forever is sub-optimal, I don't think Google and Verisign are comparable. Verisign MUST provide world-class globally redundant DNS services at great cost.  Google already had much of the infrastructure in place…

2012: The Year of the New gTLD Program and the Year to Support ICANN - Part II

• Comment posted Jan 14, 2012 1:46 pm PST — by McTim
  Hi again Sophia, The module 2 text I quoted above asks for a positive assertion, while Module 3 asks for a negative assertion.  In other words, while Module 3 certainly lays out the rules under which objections can be made,…

• Comment posted Jan 14, 2012 6:20 am PST — by McTim
  Hi Sophia, I think that you are absolutely correct in that soveriegnty vs the Internet MS Model is the ongoing struggle, witness SOPA/PIPA, IBSA and may other initiatives/laws too numerous to mention. However, I think that using the AU RFP…

TLD Expansion: ICANN Must Not Back Down

• Comment posted Dec 30, 2011 6:41 am PST — by McTim
  http://news.dot-nxt.com/2011/12/30/icann-chair-no-delay-to-gtld-program

Breaking the Internet HOWTO: The Unintended Consequences of Governmental Actions

• Comment posted Dec 19, 2011 10:15 pm PST — by McTim
  As Jon Postel once said: "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." The DNS by design is a decentralized hierarchical database, albeit with a canonical root.  If you…

Borders, In Bankruptcy, Aims To Sell 65,536 IPv4 Addresses at $12/Address

• Comment posted Dec 06, 2011 3:11 pm PST — by McTim
  and thanks for the transparency reporting re: transfers done under Section 8: https://www.arin.net/knowledge/statistics/transfers_8_3.html

• Comment posted Dec 06, 2011 11:19 am PST — by McTim
  If the recipient can meet the requirements of ARIN's Specified Transfer Listing Policy (I assume it will fall under STLS), then ARIN will approve the transfer.

Is Africa Ready for a dotAfrica gTLD Future?

• Comment posted Nov 13, 2011 8:52 pm PST — by McTim
  Thomas, If you truly believe in competition for this string, then you wouldn't complain that others are seeking an endorsement that you got (long before the gTLD process was finalised).  Now that your endorsement has been withdrawn all bids are…

• Comment posted Nov 10, 2011 1:43 pm PST — by McTim
  Thomas, You've gotten your letter from the AU.  Now, your competitors would like the same.  The ICANN process calls for it.  Let them get the same endorsement (or non-objection) and you all go to ICANN on the same level. Sounds…

• Comment posted Nov 10, 2011 6:55 am PST — by McTim
  Let us begin by acknowledging that I have openly admitted that I am opposed to the negative content published by DCA.  I am not opposed to DCA itself (that was your colleague's spin on the situation).  In fact, I have…

IPv4 Historical Imbalances and the Threat to IPv6

• Comment posted Nov 07, 2011 4:51 am PST — by McTim
  While I certainly agree that allocating v6 to economies instead of to folk who will route those addresses is a bad idea whose time I hope will never come, I also think that a Global Policy to recover some of…

Is Africa Ready for a dotAfrica gTLD Future?

• Comment posted Nov 05, 2011 10:37 am PDT — by McTim
  Hi Gideon, I will try to answer your queries in order below: My “opposition” to DCA, if you can call it that, is based on the attacks DCA has made on multiple stakeholders over the last several years.  The espoused…

• Comment posted Nov 04, 2011 9:03 am PDT — by McTim
  Hi Gideon, In addition to the non-African registry operator question, I see the AU involvement as vital to the success of .africa, as the DAG at http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/evaluation-questions-criteria-clean-19sep11-en.pdf says: "Geographic Names 21 <text elided> (d) a name listed as a UNESCO…

• Comment posted Nov 03, 2011 7:55 pm PDT — by McTim
  With at least 3 bids, there is bound to be unhappiness and conflict.  All it takes is one or two countries objecting under the DAG rules and .africa will be put off to the next round.  That is how i…

Multi-Stakeholder Debate at the IGF: Lessons from a Safari

• Comment posted Sep 30, 2011 3:48 am PDT — by McTim
  Sorry mate, I'm a bit thick headed this morning, can you spell it out for me? BTW, I drive my own car into Kenyan parks whenever I go on safari.

• Comment posted Sep 29, 2011 4:14 am PDT — by McTim
  There are those of us in CS who are keen to see the IGF evolve, but not necessarily make policy recommendations or produce outputs.  Those would not be in the mandate per my reading of the Tunis Agenda. The expenditure…

IPv4 Addresses Not Property, Canada Weighs in on the Nortel/Microsoft Transfer

• Comment posted Apr 20, 2011 5:39 pm PDT — by McTim
  I wish I could attend the Giganet thingy Milton is putting together, JC is a speaker, so there could be fireworks!!  I'm sure reason will prevail.

• Comment posted Apr 20, 2011 5:28 pm PDT — by McTim
  All at least one reader hasn't been able to read the letter via the link I posted.  here is another way to get there: http://chapter11.epiqsystems.com/NNI/docket/Default.aspx then find #5253...left click on the word "Document\" on the right hand side of entry…

Internet Policing Increasingly Delegated to ISPs, Private Organizations

• Comment posted Feb 03, 2011 3:48 am PST — by McTim
  mind-boggling isn't it!  Especially when we see this post on CircleId pointing out correctly that governments are the ones we have to fear in this regard.

The Real Threat to the Single Root of the Internet Seems to Come from ICANN Itself, of All Places

• Comment posted Dec 10, 2010 6:49 pm PST — by McTim
  so when you say that "the Internet that reaches and will reach them and their territories" what you mean is that ICANN can't contract with registries in pariah states, right? What is your solution to this issue?  Have it move…

The ISP Industry: Concentrated or Diverse?

• Comment posted Nov 09, 2010 7:55 pm PST — by McTim
  The devil, of course, is in the details!

Landing Sites, Internet's Achilles Heel of the Internet?

• Comment posted Oct 26, 2010 6:27 pm PDT — by McTim
  While landing stations are important, cable (land and sea) cuts happen all the time, traffic just gets rerouted.  There would be disruption, but not catastrophic disruption.  TeleGeography has lots of maps to show where the traffic could be rerouted via…

On the Need to Separate the Telecom Business Agenda from Government Policy

• Comment posted Oct 09, 2010 5:57 pm PDT — by McTim
  The proposal as reported in a variety of places is short: "Consideration should be given to the expediency of having the functions of GAC carried out by a specially-constituted group within ITU with the authority to veto decisions adopted by…

Plutocrats and the Internet

• Comment posted Oct 08, 2010 8:16 pm PDT — by McTim
  From another source: "Consideration should be given to the expediency of having the functions of GAC carried out by a specially-constituted group within ITU with the authority to veto decisions adopted by the ICANN Board of Directors. If it is…

Competition to Regional Internet Registries (RIR) for Post-Allocation Services?

• Comment posted Sep 16, 2010 9:38 pm PDT — by McTim
  is how to make money. RIRs provide services to their members, some of these are services that the members don't even ask for but are useful to the regional and global Internet community. The motivation behind this idea is (IIUC)…

• Comment posted Sep 15, 2010 2:57 pm PDT — by McTim
  I think that most folk agree that IP address distribution is the shining light of Internet Governance, while the multi-billion dollar Domain Name industry is not.  Monetising IP address, ASN and reverse delegation would be a step backwards from the…

Silvia Hagen: It's Not About IPv6 Transition But Urgent Integration

• Comment posted Sep 15, 2010 5:23 am PDT — by McTim
  http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Plans-Residential-IPv6-In-2010-103013

The Digital Divide on IP Addresses

• Comment posted May 31, 2010 11:34 am PDT — by McTim
  Gents, I wrote a reply several days ago, but it hasn't appeared, so I have written a separate blog post that should be visible on CircleID shortly.

Leading Internet Companies May Share IPv6 User List to Aid Transition

• Comment posted Mar 28, 2010 6:36 am PDT — by McTim
  they are not one and the same!

Country Internet Registries: One African Perspective

• Comment posted Mar 06, 2010 11:42 am PST — by McTim
  Hi Suresh, Reading the tec.gov.in document, it seems there is still some some confusion about how an NIR works in the APNIC region. Perhaps it is an old document, but they seem to think they will get a /23 and…

• Comment posted Mar 05, 2010 6:52 am PST — by McTim
  Apologies, I was under the impression that the APNIC community had decided not to create new NIRs.  I was mistaken about that.

How to Manage Internet Abundance

• Comment posted Feb 18, 2010 5:57 am PST — by McTim
  Spot on Bret. I have also written a few posts about this very topic: http://www.circleid.com/members/1420/ rgds, McTim

ICANN's Positive Affirmation: Good News for Africa and Emerging Markets

• Comment posted Oct 09, 2009 6:39 am PDT — by McTim
  Well said Vika and Andrew Mack! Now, if we could focus on the IG issues that affect us in Africa (access costs in particular), and less on ICANN issues, we'd make better progress.

FUD for Thought: ARIN Releases Comic Books

• Comment posted Jun 01, 2009 5:06 am PDT — by McTim
  A bit too bandwidth intensive for us here in Africa, but an excellent effort along the lines of Cisco's Peter (and Polly) Packet. Rgds, McTim

ICANN Blows $4.6 Million In Stock Market

• Comment posted Feb 10, 2009 9:55 pm PST — by McTim
  I don't understand the kneejerk mentality where everything that ICANN does is Evil. In a numbered list, one has to be last, wouldn't it be prudent to list the non-core business stuff last?  If they listed "Ensure financial accountability, stability…

ICANN Uses For-Profit Companies as "Comparables" in Its Employee Compensation

• Comment posted Jan 07, 2009 5:02 am PST — by McTim
  ICANN staff do a fine job...it's the ICANN board whose actions you seem to dislike. ICANN's board should be embarrassed by the quality of its corporate governance, and certainly those who hold ICANN accountable will at some point do the…

• Comment posted Jan 06, 2009 5:34 pm PST — by McTim
  I wrote a long screed, refuting his conclusions and shaky premises, but then my child hit the big red button...as they do..so I'll just say this. ICANN staff work in a uniquely complex situation, I agree with George that their…

Scotland Wants Its Own Top-Level Domain '.SCO'

• Comment posted Apr 11, 2008 3:13 pm PDT — by McTim
  Ummm, they can send all the "formal requests" they like, but IIUC, if it ain't on the ISO 3166 list, it's not going in the root (and it's not on the list).

Comments on an IP Address Trading Market

• Comment posted Feb 17, 2008 5:29 am PST — by McTim
  Hi Dan, a few points on your general understanding of the RIR system (which is pretty good, but slightly flawed). First, the idea that the RIRs themselves set policy on v4 exhaustion/trading is a misnomer.  They certainly act in concert…

2008 Report Analyzing Distribution and Trends of IP Address Allocation

• Comment posted Jan 30, 2008 5:38 pm PST — by McTim
  Tim, A few comments, 1.  The first para should read "The study report analyzes the distribution and the trends of IP address allocation in 238 countries using historical data." It seems unlikely that allocations and assignments to USA networks got…

On the Hunt for "Critical Internet Resources"

• Comment posted Nov 14, 2007 7:10 pm PST — by McTim
  Nice one Geoff, Thanks for the perspective!

IPv6 for the Rest of Us

• Comment posted Jun 07, 2007 5:22 am PDT — by McTim
  Hello Michelle, Michele Neylon said: If ARIN policed their IPv4 space more carefully they wouldn't have as many issues with IP space .... Your one sentence contains two major false premises: 1. ARIN has no "policing" function. This is not…

GG, IM, and JE: Welcome (officially) to ISO3166, Good Bye GB

• Comment posted Jun 07, 2006 5:58 pm PDT — by McTim
  Ummmm, How often are you asked how to get a ccTLD??  Doesn't seem like something that a lot of folks would be curious about ;-)

China's New Domain Names: Lost in Translation

• Comment posted Mar 03, 2006 5:23 am PST — by McTim
  Gadi, Let's call it "plain old vanilla DNS, with a sprinkling of IDN", as that's what it seems to be. TLD Ops creating SLDs is the way things have always been done, no?

• Comment posted Mar 01, 2006 2:34 pm PST — by McTim
  Brett's hypothesis is empirically testable. The question is this: If I am in China, and type in http://www.circleid.com IN ENGLISH, will I get this very website, or will I get http://www.circleid.com.cn ? If I get CircleID, then we still have…

What's Wrong with Domain Names?

• Comment posted Dec 23, 2005 5:34 am PST — by McTim
  While I may agree with TFBW that this behaviour is parasitical, the Devil's Advocate in me wants to ask: Is this not just another example of "Innovation at the Edge" of the network that we all seem to support as…

Internet Governance: Countdown to Tunis

• Comment posted Nov 08, 2005 4:56 am PST — by McTim
  This is an interesting read.  However, I am unsure as to the implications, especially point 16. Is this proposal meant to be in addition to the current IANA ccTLD redelegation procedures or would it replace those procedures? BTW, AFAIK "A"…

A Further Look Into ORSN

• Comment posted Oct 26, 2005 8:56 pm PDT — by McTim
  Milton, The IANA function has been a USG contract long before '98.

About Those Root Servers

• Comment posted Aug 10, 2005 9:24 pm PDT — by McTim
  What is in it for the rootops to sign a MoU or contract? What is their incentive to commit themselves contractually to obligations they currently don't have? What is the up-side for them?