I suppose most of these users will have big (actually a quite small) flat infrastructure to keep it simple? Hence what limits them to use just LL? Why ULA? What would be the residential users benefit? Do you think that residential users will have small routed networks in the future?
G/ -----Original Message----- From: Mark Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 1:45 AM To: Bernie Volz (volz) Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Revising Centrally Assigned ULA draft On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 10:06:16 -0400 "Bernie Volz \(volz\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IANA already manages things like enterprise-id numbers. And, then > there's the existing IPv4 address space (how many assigned addresses > are returned or reclaimed?). > > While ULA's could potentially be used by a much larger number of > entities, they may also not be used except by larger organizations. Do > you think your average home user or small business would need a ULA? > Would they know to get one? Would they have the knowledge to manage it? > Any residential user who needs to have non-globally accessible devices attached to their home network could use them. Think a networked printer. Or DVD player, or clothes iron, washing machine, TV etc. As I think it'd be likely that most residential users would have devices that they don't want "on the Internet", I think ULA addessing domains are likely to going to be present in every household. As for getting a ULA, that's a user interface problem, and I think that's mostly independent of the addressing space or how to generate the ULA unique value. A simple enough solution might be that the first time an Internet home gateway is powered up it generates the ULA, then starts announcing it as a prefix in RAs. This sort of problem has been solved before on a number of occasions - IPX, Appletalk or zeroconf could provide example methods. Regards, Mark. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
