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Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course
From: Doug Barton <dougb () dougbarton us>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:21:40 -0700 (PDT)
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010, Owen DeLong wrote:
On Jul 24, 2010, at 10:35 PM, Doug Barton wrote:For bonus points, explain how the numbers side of IANA pays for anything when the RIRs stop funding it?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.)
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 -- 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 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 Jack Bates (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course David Conrad (Jul 25)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Mark Smith (Jul 25)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Randy Bush (Jul 25)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Doug Barton (Jul 25)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Karl Auer (Jul 25)