"Stephen Sprunk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|Playing Devil's Advocate, perpetual assignments will also inevitably lead to
|a situation where, after many years (think decades), the majority of
|assignments will be stale because the registrant no longer exists but didn't
|return the assignment. While there's no concern about running out of
|assignable prefixes, it's not sound engineering practice to maintain data
|known to be useless, and it drives up the up-front cost that a registrar
|must charge.
That's why it would be best to distribute the data to the prefix holders in
the form of some sort of signed certificates. The registar need only maintain
a fixed-size bitmap of allocated/available prefixes.
Dan Lanciani
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