Re: IPv6 WG Consensus call: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-01.txt

[Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 08:52:26AM +0100, Tim Chown wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:39:25PM -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> > 
> > I also believe that we should be watching the IPv6 PI policy proposal at
> > ARIN et al; if the ARIN proposal is approved (and other RIRs follow suit), I
> > see little reason to continue work on centrally-assigned ULAs.
> 
> I disagree.  The ARIN proposal seems to be 'PI for any ASN holder' in which
> case
> 
> a) this will limit who gets the PI space to large organisations
> b) be limited by the 16-bit ASN space (and may create a land rush)
> c) be useless to the small end site that wants to use unique ULAs
> 
> But I may have misunderstood the ARIN proposal :)

Following up to myself, the proposal in fact says 'sites who could qualify 
for an ASN'.   But that does limit who could use this source for PI.

-- 
Tim/::1



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