Charlie, > Charlie Perkins wrote: > 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.
If the addresses were allocated randomly or with a hash I would agree with you. However, what I proposed was addresses allocated geographically, along the lines of being used as identifiers for a dual-space multihoming solution, and this will require some work from the RIRs (maintenance/monitoring of areas) thus the fee. Michel. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
