[discuss] On Addresses and Identifiers / proceeding properly

[Seth Johnson]

(My very short Netmundial submission:)

http://content.netmundial.br/contribution/short-comment-on-internet-universality-basic-interoperability-as-a-prior-principle/301


Seth

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Seth Johnson <seth.p.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Patrik Fältström <paf at frobbit.se> wrote:
>>
>> On 2014-03-07 17:24, Lee Howard wrote:
>>>
>>> The case was, "What if the government made a network use addresses not
>>> acknowledged by the rest of the world."
>>> The answer is, "The network would no longer be on the Internet."
>>>
>>> Minimum requirement: interoperability.  Without that, no Internet.
>>
>> To put it differently, allocation of parameters is not policy decisions.
>> It is the result of coordination between the parties that need the
>> parameters.
>
>
> Exactly!  And this is a very, very critical point, probably one of
> the most critical things people need to be understanding
> right about now.
>
> I'll elaborate more later, but I have way too much on my plate right
> now.  Glad Patrik picked it up.
>
> (Enjoy your weekend folks.)
>
>
> Seth