[ppml] [address-policy-wg] Those pesky ULAs again

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:31:14AM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 29-mei-2007, at 11:18, Shane Kerr wrote:
> 
> >There are no advantages to ULA (central), as I see it. Which is why
> >I oppose it.
> 
> It troubles me that so many people are willing to deprive others of
> something that those others consider useful just because they
> themselves don't find that thing useful.

If something is not useful to me, but might be useful to others, I
generally don't oppose it.

But I do not think ULA central is useful to anyone.

Even if ULA central is useful, I don't think it is something the RIRs
need to be involved in.

If you insist on ULA central, my preferred implementation is a web
page where you click on a button that says "give me a ULA prefix" and
it allocates a random prefix that is not in use, and prints it on the
screen. The only implementation question I'm not sure about is whether
the list of allocated prefixes would be public or not; I lean towards
making it public, although there is a (small) privacy concern. I think
the cost of this implementation is low enough you could find a group
of volunteers to host the system.

--
Shane