John, On Mar 12, 2013, at 6:10 PM, John Curran <[email protected]> wrote: >> I believe that according to RFC 2860, the IETF is responsible for the >> allocation of blocks of addresses (IPv4 or IPv6) used for experimental >> purposes, not the RIRs. > Definitely the case, although it would probably be best to confirm the > same understanding of "experimental purposes"
Agreed. > In any case, one of the important parts of ICANN's mission is coordination, > and it would be hard to fulfill that particular role while issuing IPv6 > prefixes at large without some degree of consultation with the greater > community. Again, my understanding of RFC 2860 is that it is the IETF's role to specify address blocks that are to be used for experimentation purposes and ICANN, in its role as the IANA Functions Operator, would be obliged to allocate/register the block and ensure it isn't re-allocated before the experiment terminates. Do you have a different interpretation of ICANN's role in these sorts of situations? More to the point, what further coordination by ICANN (or the RIRs) do you believe is necessary/beneficial for a block of IPv6 addresses to be used for EIDs in LISP protocol experiments? Thanks, -drc _______________________________________________ lisp mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lisp
