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 -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 113403 SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (89) 32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279