[address-policy-wg] Policy Proposal #eta : IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy - definition for "End-Site

On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 12:38:51PM -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
> >> classically, if they have no plan to be connected, they don't get
> >> address space.
> >         may have been true when the only network was ARPAnet.
> >         with the advent of Internet, if you could demonstrate runing IP
> >         you could get addresses (mostly true)
> > 	remember the "connected/unconnected" database?
> 
> nope.  sri internet days, netsol address days, ... even today, it
> says if you will be connecting to the network.

	true... but the "network" has changed over time.
	this i know becuase the commercial US defense contractor
	that i worked for was not able to join the ARPAnet directly
	(AUP issues) - we were assigned numbers from the "unconnected"
	database for oour global network - then the AUP changed
	and we were connected ... and found that the connected/unconnected
	databases overlapped ... my task was to renumber 134 sites.
	Others had similar history. 

> it even makes sense.  if you're not going to be on the internet,
> why the heck do you need an internet address?

	because I'm running IP-based infrastructure.... 
	and (presuming the IPv6-enabled world) there is zero reason
	to treat addresses as an artifically scarce resource.
	Routing ... thats something else. Raw addresses - not a
	scarce resource.
> 
> randy