[address-policy-wg] ULA discussion

Sander Steffann wrote:
[..]

Please note that the discussions here where about "ULA Central" space,
which has a reserved slot at fc00::/8.

> As people who don't ULA don't have to use it (and filter fc00::/7),

ULA (RFC4139) is fd00::/8. These are already standardized and accepted
and can be automatically generated by anyone. RIR's have no
involvement in ULA's at all.

Tool for generating ULA's can now be easily found at:
http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/ula/

Which also contains a 'registry', to 'register' the ULA one is using.
This is an intermediate step to ULA-Central. Anybody can generate a
prefix and register them in that list. Of course people can simply
ignore that list if they want/do not know about it as it is not
official in anyway. In that respect, there are some newly started
discussions in the IAB about this and on how to move forward with a
possible ULA-C scheme.

If somebody wants ULA-Central, then, as Fred Baker indicated, use the
IETF IPv6 Working Group mailinglist and raise your voice there.

When there is again a ULA-Central draft, and then an RFC, then this
can be brought forward to the RIR's and am fairly sure that they can
then apply a proper policy for it. When there is no such RFC though
all of that is useless.


My personal stance on all the ULA/PI/PA stuff: RIR's should provide a
means to let an organization get a block of size X, where X depends on
the size they can justify to the RIR.

Greets,
 Jeroen


PS: I heared another rumor that IANA might at one point have a similar
"Registered" ULA list, when that happens, the one at SixXS will cease
to exist and a redirect will be made to IANA. The list will of course
be passed to IANA so that they can build further upon that. The
generation function of course will always stay there so that it will
be easy to find.

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