At 09:04 AM 6/10/2003, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote:
Earlier, I suggested that an ISP could delegate addresses out of its existing aggregated, global unicast address block for free without providing connectivity. Having seen all of the email on this subject, I believe that such an ISP could actually sell prefixes for which it doesn't provide direct connectivity. Such addresses could be used for VPN's, etc. without fear of collision. Traffic destined to such addresses on the Internet would be aggregated to the ISP, and probably sent to /dev/null. For an additional fee, the ISP could tunnel such traffic back its customers. The prefixes would be sold for a fixed, one-time fee.
Is this just another form of a registry? Also, a lot of the motivation for this type of addresses was to get addresses that are provider independent. While they are not intended to be routable, the seem provider oriented to me.
Also, it doesn't by itself, meet the need of people who want to be able to create a prefix locally.
Bob
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