Hello Michel,

Michel Py wrote:

> Pardon me? There is no such thing for end-sites as of today.
>
> > My thinking is that global addresses + statistically
> > unique site-locals would cover most of the need we have,
> > and it does not pay to construct complexity for the small
> > amount of folks who would need perfect uniqueness.
>
> Since truly unique would have a fee, the people that pay the fee will
> finance the development effort. From an enterprise standpoint, $50 a
> year is not significant if it buys the *guarantee* that the address is
> unique. The truly unique feature is like insurance.

I don't think a fee is required at all.  The amount of storage and
processor time that a freebie allocation site would require is
so small, I'm sure many people, including me, would be
willing to host such a website for free.  I suggested before
that there should be a web page under www.iana.org for
people to get addresses, rate limited and so on.  This is
not a "registration", because nobody has to care about who
actually got the address, and no services are to be offered.

This would solve the uniqueness problem, but all the other
problems would remain.  It seems to me that this also eliminates
a requirement for "statistically unique" addresses for site-local.

Regards,
Charlie P.


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