On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Charlie Perkins 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.
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