Re: [rrg] Constraints due to the need for widespread voluntary adoption

On Dec 1, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Patrick Frejborg wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Noel Chiappa  
> <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>>    > From: Patrick Frejborg <pfrejborg@gmail.com>
>>
>>    > concern about having a mapping database for routing information
>>
>> How does the mapping database differ, in terms of being a  
>> operational 'weak
>> point', from the DNS?
>
> If it is similar as the DNS then it will be easier to research and
> understand, there is history data available.
>
> I had a look on Wikipedia, found this
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System#Abuse_and_regulation
>
> And from there this book, has anyone read it - is it worthwhile to
> spend money on?
> http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=2103A8B5-75F0-49AE-9911-8B87F34E00EC&ttype=2&tid=10205

It has merits, but readers should be aware that the author was a  
professional political activist for quite (economic) ideologically  
extreme groups before he became an academic a couple of decades back,  
and that every research finding that he's made as an academic since  
then could be predicted based on that past affiliation alone. If you  
share the underlying view that (a) voluntary contractual exchanges of  
private property rights based explicitly and exclusively on the price  
mechanism are the only legitimate basis for making decisions in any  
context, and also that (b) it is definitionally impossible for private  
bilateral contracts based on the price mechanism to ever produce a bad  
outcome, then the book's ideological bias can be safely ignored.  
However, since (a) entails that the IETF, the RIRs, and current system  
for managing root DNS are all fundamentally illegitimate, I might be  
slightly concerned about the long-term effects of cognitive  
dissonance...

TV

> Is this the direction we prefer to take?
>
> What if there is only a small address block that do have global rules
> and the 5 RIRs would be given their own blocks for which they can
> define their own regional rules?
>
> I have no answers, only more questions.
>
> -- patte
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