Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course

Sun Jul 25 07:18:04 UTC 2010

On Sun, 25 Jul 2010, Jack Bates wrote:

> 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.

You misunderstood. The correct answer to ULA was "Don't do it (or, 
more correctly, do IPv6 PI instead)."

>> 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.

Now that sounds like something it would have been easy for IANA to do. 
See, you have tension on this topic even in your own line of reasoning.

:)

Doug

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