On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 10:06:16 -0400 "Bernie Volz \(volz\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IANA already manages things like enterprise-id numbers. And, then > there's the existing IPv4 address space (how many assigned addresses are > returned or reclaimed?). > > While ULA's could potentially be used by a much larger number of > entities, they may also not be used except by larger organizations. Do > you think your average home user or small business would need a ULA? > Would they know to get one? Would they have the knowledge to manage it? > Any residential user who needs to have non-globally accessible devices attached to their home network could use them. Think a networked printer. Or DVD player, or clothes iron, washing machine, TV etc. As I think it'd be likely that most residential users would have devices that they don't want "on the Internet", I think ULA addessing domains are likely to going to be present in every household. As for getting a ULA, that's a user interface problem, and I think that's mostly independent of the addressing space or how to generate the ULA unique value. A simple enough solution might be that the first time an Internet home gateway is powered up it generates the ULA, then starts announcing it as a prefix in RAs. This sort of problem has been solved before on a number of occasions - IPX, Appletalk or zeroconf could provide example methods. Regards, Mark. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
