Hello Alain, Alain Durand wrote:
> So, as I wrote in this forum about a week ago, what I'd like > to see in that area is simply provider independant, registry allocated, > easy accessible (very low registry fees, no question asked) > public address space, and then forget about the "scope" discussion > which is an operational/business issue. I almost agree, except that I would insist on "no cost". Low cost is often impossible, since that even a base charge for $0.50 requires invoicing across several continents and purchasing departments and levels of approval. Plus there aren't any lawyers or specious arguments about copyright to pump up the cost argument (I hope!!). I am imagining a URL along the lines of http://www.iana.org/IPv6/local_address_registry/cgi-bin/doit.cgi Is it a worry that someone would have to do some programming for such an IANA web page? I don't think there are any technical details that are difficult. Rate limiting and so on are not very hard to specify. It would even be possible to allocate prefix blocks of different sizes and so on, depending on what the final requirements are determined to be. This can all be done in a scalable way that is guaranteed to last for however many centuries are needed. Regards, Charlie P. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
