As a long time lurker on this list, I thought this thread is quite similar to a discussion I got involved in at ARIN (FYI I myself am based in the RIPE region).<div><br></div><div>My opinion was that I couldn't understand the need for specific policies for these "critical infrastructures" .. I also questioned the criticalness of .foobar but thats really beside the point. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Most TLDs are operated by professional organizations - there's quite a few of them, you probably know at least one of two of them. I would assume these orgs have sufficient address space for their operations and probably most new TLDs will sit on the same servers and perhaps addresses as the existing ones. If they pay their operator for diversity I assume the operator will assign addresses to them from their unused pool. </div>
<div><br></div><div>In other words, all this infrastructure is already out there, the organizations most likely to need space already have space - so what issue is being solved?</div><div><br></div><div>Now I am not familiar with the hosting arrangements of all the ccTLDs of Africa (as distinct from new ICANN TLDs etc), but I'd be curious to look at these organizations and see if there is a widespread issue that needs solving or maybe one or two corner cases that sparked this. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The problem in this IPv4 depleted age is everyone has reasons to want more v4 and once you open the flood gates they're hard to close.</div><div><br></div><div>HTH</div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 November 2012 16:01, David Conrad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drc@virtualized.org" target="_blank">drc@virtualized.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
SM,<br>
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On Nov 26, 2012, at 3:28 PM, SM <<a href="mailto:sm@resistor.net">sm@resistor.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Could someone please explain what's critical about such strings?<br>
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</div>What is critical about any TLD that justifies the allocation of provider independent address space from an RIR?<br>
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Regards,<br>
-drc<br>
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