Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Jun 19, 2014, at 10:51 , Barry Shein <bzs () world std com> wrote:

> On June 19, 2014 at 04:01 owen () delong com (Owen DeLong) wrote:
> > ICANN != a good sampling of number resource issues or concerns.
> >
> > As you noticed, the whole mess with domain names and their IP issues
> > is the monetary tail that wags the ICANN dog. ICANN barely pays attention
> > to number resources and when they do, it’s primarily to do whatever has
> > been agreed upon by the policy processes in the various RIRs.
> >
> > This is actually a good thing and we should seek to preserve this fact
> > after ICANN loses its “adult supervision”.
>
> Really. You're really completely discounting ICANN in having any
> leadership or participative role in the IPv4/IPv6 transition?

No. They have some role. They just don't have any leadership role and are
not a point to apply any meaningful pressure.

Owen