Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 11:08:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> To: IAP@VMA.CC.ND.EDU Cc: inet-access@earth.com, linuxisp@jeffnet.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, os2-isp@dental.stat.com Subject: Re: Internet MELTS DOWN AT END 1996?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960915105148.6868F-100000@sidhe.memra.com> In-Reply-To: <199609142202.XAA04224@linux.lisse.NA>
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On Sat, 14 Sep 1996, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > Now he is a member of the engineering task force and all, but I You could be too. Just attend two meetings, I believe, and you are a member. > Then already I was quite irritated by the fact that those biggies send > their staff to the IETF and so on and make the rules to suit > themselves. The IETF consists of individuals who do *NOT* represent their companies or organizations. If they change jobs they still maintain any IETF positions they hold. > It just aint so. There is just no technical reason for this refusal to > route. It is purely a financial matter, and multinational companies > having a monopoly with their brigades of ruthless marketing and > ligitation staff of course try to maximise profits. And of course they > send their technical staff to IETF and write the rules the way they > want. You are seriously confused here as is most of Africa no doubt. This is probably a result of the colonial legacy and in your case your German background. You are looking for an official hierarchy, for official channels, for bosses who have the power to say yes. Unfortunately these do not exist. If you want an African NIC, you can have one. It is a publicly stated policy that there will be NIC's for continent sized areas. To get a NIC for Africa you need to do several things. 1) Get a majority of the countries to agree. This is not political or government issue. Just get the significant people who are doing internetworking to agree to make use of and support an Africa-NIC. 2) Learn how to allocate IP addresses properly. Especially, understand the limits of portability and understand how organizations can use RFC1918 addresses along with NAT (Network Address Translation) and ALG's (Application Layer Gateways) to achieve immunity from renumbering. Cisco will have NAT in IOS 11.2 for all its routers. Linux and FreeBSD already have it. A prominent free ALG is TIS Firewalls Toolkit. Read this ftp://rs.internic.net/policy/internic/internic-ip-1.txt and read this ftp://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hubbard-registry-guidelines-05.txt and send some email to kimh@internic.net for advice. 3) Then with knowledge and with the consensus of most of Africa's internetworking community, apply to IANA iana@isi.edu for the rights to operate your Africa-NIC. You will get those rights. Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
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