[address-policy-wg] 2007-05 New Policy Proposal (IPv6 ULA-Central)

Hi,

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 07:24:30PM +0200, Shane Kerr wrote:
> And the proposal that these addresses will be issued directly by the
> RIPE NCC to end users?

One could argue for "use the LIR structure for that" or for "do it
directly, for a one-up charge".

> I think this is interesting, but if that is the idea, then the whole
> structure (NRO->RIR->end users) seems really complicated. There are
> about 1 trillion of these /48's. I think a much better idea would be
> for the NRO to set up a web page where you type in your credit card
> number and for 5 euros (or 10 or 20 or whatever) you get a /48. (Not
> an original idea of mine, but I can't remember who suggested it to
> me.)

This would be a possible approach as well.

Unfortunately, the NRO doesn't want to do this "out of the blue", so we
need the RIR policy process to get a mandate to the RIRs into place
"make the NRO (or whoever else) distribute ULA-central addresses!".

[..]
> If the NRO demands that this be a policy action within each region,
> there's no special reason the NRO has to be involved, is there? Anyone
> with a server can run this.

Sure.  Anyone with a server, and the backing that *this* is the entity 
that has the IETF/IANA/user community blessing to do so.

Otherweise we'll have multiple ULA central "registries", which is not
what we want.  That's what ULA local is for.

Gert Doering
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