Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course

Sun Jul 25 07:21:40 UTC 2010

On Sat, 24 Jul 2010, Owen DeLong wrote:

>
> On Jul 24, 2010, at 10:35 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010, Brandon Butterworth wrote:
>>
>>>>> Eventually ARIN (or someone else will do it for them) may create a 
>>>>> site
>>> ...
>>>> Did you mean something like this maybe ?:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/ula/
>>>
>>> Q.E.D.
>>>
>>> The RFC seeks to avoid a registry so we end up with the potential 
>>> for many as a result. May as well have had ARIN do it officially in 
>>> the first place so there'd only be one.
>>
>> So, back when ULA was first proposed, some of us said (sometimes 
>> privately) that there are only 2 rational options: 1. Do it; with a 
>> persistent, guaranteed unique, global registry. 2. Don't do it.
>>
>> Option 2 was a non-starter since there was too much critical mass. 
>> The logical candidate to operate option 1 was the IANA, and the RIRs 
>> were 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.)
>>
> For bonus points, explain how the numbers side of IANA pays for 
> anything when the RIRs stop funding it?

David already answered more eloquently than I could, so I'll simply add 
that what he said applied when I was there as well. The IANA is, and 
always has been a cost center. You don't want to live in an IANA 
fee-for-service world.

Doug

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