[discuss] [bestbits] The decentralization of IP addresses

[Paul Wilson]

For reference, here’s an article on this topic, written 10 years ago 
in response to an ITU proposal for geographic/nationalised management of 
IPv6 address space.

http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_geography_of_internet_addressing

Paul.



On 27 Nov 2015, at 6:49, willi uebelherr wrote:

> The decentralization of IP addresses.
>
> We need a completely self-organizing Internet. And this is possible 
> only through massive decentralization. We can look at the difficulties 
> at the beginning of the Internet with tolerance. They were mostly of a 
> technical nature. But today we have other conditions. And from these 
> other conditions arise other possibilities.
>
> It is about the IP address. It is necessary to ensure that the packets 
> find their direct route to their targets. The router work with 
> numbers. We humans with text. The content is the same. Only the 
> representation is different.
>
> The Internet, a transport system for digital data in packet form, 
> needs this destination address to forward the packets to their 
> destinations can. The packets include this destination. With that, the 
> packets are the instance to enable and orient the router.
>
> All transport systems operate on the basis of geographical processes. 
> We transport from position A to position B. Consider. The transport of 
> digital data They are comparable with boxes. In the case the data are. 
> They do not care. Outside sticking a piece of paper with the source 
> address, destination address and some information about the transport. 
> These boxes are being made from the transport routes such as the cars 
> and buses on the roads.
>
> Consider the transport of digital data. The IP packets are comparable 
> to cases in which the data are packed. But the data do not interest 
> us. Outside sticking a piece of paper with the source address, 
> destination address and some information about the transport. These 
> boxes flows over the transport routes such as the cars and buses on 
> the roads.
>
> At the branches we have to decide how to proceed. There are the 
> routers. They look at the paper and read the destination address. This 
> is converted to the geographical position and compared to the 
> geographical position of the router. The result is a directional angle 
> and the distance. And with that each router can immediately decide in 
> which direction it goes on.
>
> We have thus fulfilled the first requirement. The global part of the 
> IP address is always derived from the geographical position of the 
> local network. How we do this is an object of our global discussion 
> and cooperation based on the RFCs (Request for Comment). A very simple 
> way.
>
> The local part of the IP address is always self-determined in the 
> local network. We do not need to know the schema of resolution outside 
> of the local network. In the DNS request we also get this part.
>
> The decisive factor for this solution that we need in the future no 
> Internet Governance. No organizations that compete for the award of 
> rights of IP addresses. No organizations whose livelihood is based on 
> the sale of global IP addresses.
>
> With many greetings, willi
> Coro, Venezuela
>
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