I agree with Charlie. There could be another model, where the end-site would request the block to one of their ISPs and the ISP access the IANA or RIR web site on behalf of the customer. I think that RIRs would be more comfortable with this.
Also, there is nothing that says that we can't have both Pekka's almost unique *and* something like what I proposed which is completely unique at the same time. Michel. > Charlie Perkins wrote: > Maybe it could be done almost for free. > Maybe there could be a web page under the IANA > web page where a network administrator could > get the "next" site-local prefix. This would > be rate-limited so that only a few prefixes > would be given out per second, and so on. It > seems like it would work, at least well-enough > to be given a try. It would not require very > much administration on the part of IANA (or > whoever agreed to host the web page). Of > course, this only solves the one problem of > guaranteeing global uniqueness for the > site-local prefixes, and the other problems > remain. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
