[arin-ppml] Policy Proposal: Open Access To IPv6

[Garry Dolley]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 07:50:50PM +0000, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:06:23PM -0700, Garry Dolley wrote:
> > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:49:02AM -0700, Stacy Hughes wrote:
> > >  A multihoming requirement discriminates against networks that either cannot
> > > or do not want to multihome.I oppose this modification.
> > > Stacy
> > 
> > If you aren't multi-homed, you should get an allocation from your
> > upstream, IMO.  The block provided by the upstream will be
> > aggregated, most likely, to *their* upstream / peers, so an extra
> > routing table slot would not be needed, thereby saving resources.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Garry Dolley
> > ARP Networks, Inc. | http://www.arpnetworks.com | (818) 206-0181
> 
> 	what upstream is that?  once again, the limiting notion that
> 	there connectedness to "someone else" is a prerequiste for using IP.
> 	uniqueness i can understand (someday you might want to be connected,
> 	but now...)

If uniqueness, and not connectivity, is the concern, look into ULAs
[1].

You can use them now, without ever contacting ARIN, or any IRR.


1. RFC 4193, "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"
   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4193

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