[ppml] Resurrecting ULA Central [was: Re: Policy Proposal 2006-2: Micro-allocations for Internal Infrastructure - to be revised ]

[bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 04:27:06PM -0400, Jason Schiller (schiller at uu.net) wrote:
> Bill,
> 
> Are you saying the right place to solve the private addressing issue is in
> the individual RIRs?

	perhaps i was unclear.  the ULA proposal from the IETF
	create property rights in IP address space, a concept that
	to date, is antithical to the RIR premise that IP space
	is roughly analogous to frequencies... e.g. can I OWN
	the frequency band between 10.8GHz and 11.2Ghz and require
	anyone who uses it to pay me royalties on a global basis?
	
	the IETF proposal allows entities to claim ownership, via
	first come, first served, of IP space.  There is some precident
	at least in the US system of law, which argues against the
	ability to own numbers.  My fears may be unfounded in this
	regard.

	but the ULA central proposal does create yet another registry,
	the "central" thing that is supposed to track who is holding what.
	And there is no plan to provide a viaable businsess model for such
	a "central" holder.  And there is no current way that "central"
	can or would coordinate with the other RIRs.

	-MY- assertion is that there is or should be  no distinction
	on an address delegation... the PI/PA debate is or should be 
	pointless.  You get a delegation or not.  You can chose to make
	subsiquent delegations from your delegated space or not.  
	And it is reasonable to place conditions on a delegation such that
	it is recoverable... presuming the horse has not left the barn.

	that said, ARIN policy is created through the the open policy
	process.  if you -WANT- to add more policies, go for it.  
	I'd prefer to revamp most of the policies and come up wiht 
	a few core things and not build up a big policy analysis group.

--bill

> 
> I just want to be clear on this point so I can determine the best place to
> focus my efforts.
> 
> I thought what I heard at the last ARIN meeting was that the ARIN policy
> on should not supercede and RFC on unique local addressing.
> 
> This is troubling as it is my understing of the history of
> draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-01.txt is that in got 7/8s finished and then 
> it died at the ARIN stage, but one of the things holding up the ARIN
> policy 2006-2 was that it really should be pursued in the IETF first.
> 
> Many people who previuosly worked on draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-01.txt
> are not intrested in reviving the draft if it is just going to die at ateh
> ARIN stage.  I would hate to invest time on the ARIN policy if people are
> not likely to accept it without an RFC.
> 
> So the question I have for you and everyone is where is the best place to
> pursue this?
> 
> ___Jason
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> On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:36:37PM -0400, Thomas Narten wrote:
> > > Cons:
> > > 
> > > 1) ARIN pretty vocally shot down the document a year or more ago, and
> > >    the IETF basically decided "we don't need this so badly as to have
> > >    a showdown with the ARIN community". Having said that, I (and
> > >    others) still think the idea has some merit and would be willing to
> > >    push on it on the IETF end, assuming we wouldn't get a repeat
> > >    reaction at future meetings for our efforts...
> > 
> > 	the reasons, imho, that ARIN gave this the thumbs down was A) that
> >	it creates property rights,  and B) has the IETF creating an other
> >	address registry out of whole cloth - not following the defined
> >	RIR creation
> > 	process.  For me, the first is fundamentally fatal.
> > 
> > > 
> > >    Note: AFAIK, no such reaction seemed to come out of APNIC or RIPE.
> > > 
> > > I know that there is at least one person willing to resurrect the
> > > ula-central document, but I (personally) don't want to invest cycles
> > > in it if it's going to get a frosty reception in ARIN again. Been
> > > there, done that.
> > >    
> > > Thomas
>