Alain, I think it is well worth writing such a draft. It might move this debate forward. However, I'll point out one advantage of Hinden/Haberman that it cannot match - the locally-assigned version of Hinden/Haberman is instantly available when IANA assigns a prefix, without a one to two year delay to put registry policy and mechanisms in place.
Brian Alain Durand wrote: > > On Nov 9, 2003, at 1:24 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > > Alain, > > > > Please define "real PI (by real I mean registered)". Not having seen > > the > > draft that defines it, I can't evaluate your argument. > > The problem with the Hinden/harbeman draft is that it allocates a part > of > the public IPv6 address space for private, unregistered usage. > The consequence is that when (and not if) those addresses > will leak in the public Internet, they will be untraceable and won't > resolve at all > in the reverse tree DNS. > > My suggestion is to let the authority in charge of administering > the public IP address space to allocate directly address space > from a specific bloc to whoever wants it, with no expectation that > it will be routable and leave it up to the customers and their ISP > to see if this gets routed or not (with a recommendation that by > default it is not). > > That way, those addresses would be traceable the day they will leak. > Of course, this requires a little extra management, > and perhaps a (small) recurring fee to maintain the database > instead of a one time 10 euro, but this should not stop anybody serious. > > If you, or the wg, thinks this avenue is worth exploring, I can write > a 2 page draft. I honestly believe that this entire issue can be > solved outside of the IETF by the RIRs without introducing anything > new/damaging in the IPv6 architecture. > > - Alain. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
