Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course

Sun Jul 25 06:42:44 UTC 2010

Doug Barton wrote:
> having none of that. (For bonus points, explain how the RIRs continue to 
> exist if everyone can have all of the guaranteed-globally-unique IPv6 
> space they wanted for free.)

whois. what did I win? IANA can handle very basic assignments, but 
hasn't the staff for large support or extra services (whois, POC 
management/validity, routing registry). I think IANA would be perfect 
for ULA identifier assignments. No whois/poc/routing registry needed. 
Send email, get an identifier in a week or 2.

> 
> And BTW, the lottery is actually the perfect analogy for ULA, since no 
> matter how astronomical the odds against, eventually someone always wins.
> 

This is my concern. A business would rather be assured uniqueness over 
gambling, no matter what the odds. Given no additional services are 
needed, the administration cost is the same as handing out snmp 
enterprise oids. The fact that the community isn't offering such due to 
politics is disheartening and just plain sad.