Tim Chown wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:06:36PM -0500, Richard Nelson wrote: > > Add to free - easy to obtain for non connected sites. 1918 addresses > > are easy to obtain. > > I have reservations here. I don't see how such prefixes, with the > associated administration/registry work, will be offered for free. > There may also be a few orders of magnitude more such prefixes requested > than there are SubTLAs. Or do people feel such requests will be very > limited? Who can manage this for no cost? > > So people will just pick their own prefixes at random, or use addresses > in the site local space (which in a small network will be easier to > remember and use for configs). Are there advantages to uniqueness > (to the user) beyond some guarantee of avoiding clashes when merging > sites? I doubt this is something I would care about in my home network, > if it had intermittent connectivity and/or dynamic ISP-assigned /48's, > and I wanted some kind of persistent address space to use internally). > > Whatever we offer has to be more attractive, as Christian said today, > and if it's not free, it won't be. >
I'm not quite sure what your conclusion is as this sentance appears to contradict your opening statement. Despite that, I agree with you, it should be free to be attractive and it can't be free because of the uniqueness requirments. The real problem comes with connected sites so perhaps we have to ensure that all users get an allocation whenever they get an ISP sites. For non-connected sites I think that cheap enough that the cost is not generally a concern will be the best we can really hope for. Richard. > If DSL providers offer static /48's, we can reduce requirements for > such independent address space in home networks, so the above may be moot. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
