[address-policy-wg] Policy Proposal #eta : IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy - definition for "End-Site
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bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
Mon Jul 11 06:04:23 CEST 2005
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 12:38:51PM -1000, Randy Bush wrote: > >> classically, if they have no plan to be connected, they don't get > >> address space. > > may have been true when the only network was ARPAnet. > > with the advent of Internet, if you could demonstrate runing IP > > you could get addresses (mostly true) > > remember the "connected/unconnected" database? > > nope. sri internet days, netsol address days, ... even today, it > says if you will be connecting to the network. true... but the "network" has changed over time. this i know becuase the commercial US defense contractor that i worked for was not able to join the ARPAnet directly (AUP issues) - we were assigned numbers from the "unconnected" database for oour global network - then the AUP changed and we were connected ... and found that the connected/unconnected databases overlapped ... my task was to renumber 134 sites. Others had similar history. > it even makes sense. if you're not going to be on the internet, > why the heck do you need an internet address? because I'm running IP-based infrastructure.... and (presuming the IPv6-enabled world) there is zero reason to treat addresses as an artifically scarce resource. Routing ... thats something else. Raw addresses - not a scarce resource. > > randy
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