On Sat, 24 Jul 2010, Owen DeLong wrote:
On Jul 24, 2010, at 10:35 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010, Brandon Butterworth wrote:
Eventually ARIN (or someone else will do it for them) may create a
site
...
Did you mean something like this maybe ?:
http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/ula/
Q.E.D.
The RFC seeks to avoid a registry so we end up with the potential
for many as a result. May as well have had ARIN do it officially in
the first place so there'd only be one.
So, back when ULA was first proposed, some of us said (sometimes
privately) that there are only 2 rational options: 1. Do it; with a
persistent, guaranteed unique, global registry. 2. Don't do it.
Option 2 was a non-starter since there was too much critical mass.
The logical candidate to operate option 1 was the IANA, and the RIRs
were having none of that. (For bonus points, explain how the RIRs
continue to exist if everyone can have all of the
guaranteed-globally-unique IPv6 space they wanted for free.)
For bonus points, explain how the numbers side of IANA pays for
anything when the RIRs stop funding it?
David already answered more eloquently than I could, so I'll simply add
that what he said applied when I was there as well. The IANA is, and
always has been a cost center. You don't want to live in an IANA
fee-for-service world.
Doug
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