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Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course
From: Doug Barton <dougb () dougbarton us>
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:35:07 -0700 (PDT)
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.)
So given the overwhelming force pulling at this thing from both directions, you end up somewhere in the middle where no one wants to be.
And BTW, the lottery is actually the perfect analogy for ULA, since no matter how astronomical the odds against, eventually someone always wins.
Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
Current thread:
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course, (continued)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Brandon Butterworth (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Fred Baker (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Leen Besselink (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Owen DeLong (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Mark Smith (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Brandon Butterworth (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Karl Auer (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Jack Bates (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Karl Auer (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Karl Auer (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Doug Barton (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Owen DeLong (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course David Conrad (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Owen DeLong (Jul 25)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Doug Barton (Jul 25)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Owen DeLong (Jul 25)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course David Conrad (Jul 25)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Owen DeLong (Jul 25)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course David Conrad (Jul 25)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Brandon Butterworth (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Jack Bates (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course David Conrad (Jul 25)