I disagree with the assumption that no one will be willing to provide a service that delegates free unique prefixes for disconnected or intermittently- connected sites. In fact, I would be willing to provide such a service myself (for the selfish reason of being the one who solved the "great site-local" debate).
I propose the following additional details: a unique GUSL prefix should by default be generated from the NIC of the router advertising the prefix. This is for the zeroconf people. For enterprises, they may gain a unique prefix from their own ISP for a fee, if so desired. For those people in between, they may come to my site to obtain a free prefix simply by supplying a working email address that I may use to contact them (i.e. I would have very minimal registration requirements). I would delegate the prefix from either 1) a larger prefix that my company, NTT, provides to me just to be nice 2) a larger prefix that some RIR provides me just to be nice. I would not claim to be the only such service. In fact, I would release the source code for the Web site so that others could provide a similar service (thus achieving redundency). Note, I specifically don't want to allocate from a *special* prefix. I'd rather delegate prefixes from some larger prefix so that other services may do the same. I'm just throwing this idea out to see if anyone likes it before I ask NTT for permission to do it (although I have received permission to post this email, of course). Best Regards, -jj -- Hacker is to software engineer as Climbing Mt. Everest is to building a Denny's there. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
