[arin-ppml] ULA-C

[William Herrin]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 12, 2010, at 8:08 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>>> The latter part, the without the hops and justifiable need issue is a
>>> policy problem, indeed.  If ARIN is to issue ULA, it should be on
>>> substantially the same terms as GUA so that there is no incentive
>>> to (mis)use ULA where GUA is required.
>>> I am all for reducing the GUA barrier to non-onerous.
>>
>> And so we're back full circle to the beginning where you're not
>> opposed to ULA as long as it's actually GUA and you're not opposed to
>> making GUA non-onerous as long as we retain all the barriers and costs
>> that make it onerous.
>>
> Not at all... ULA as strictly address space that's theoretically unroutable
> is fine with me.  I'm all for making GUA available for significantly lower
> fees than the current pricing if it can be done practically. I am not for
> any elimination of justified need, but, I'm actually willing to go pretty far
> on lowering the level required for justified need.  Probably much further
> than many other people.

Well, I will work with you tirelessly to identify practical ways to
improve the process for getting GUA space, but that doesn't help the
folks who intend to use ULA space. They have a need poorly served by
any GUA or GUA-pinned regime you've suggested: negligible cost grab
and go addresses for use with the barest hint of planning, consuming
only the most trivial of the registry services: entries in two
databases.

I don't think we want that for GUA. I think we *want* people to
carefully consider how they intend to use GUA addresses before
requesting them from the registry and throwing route announcements.
Don't you?


Of course if you'd rather, we can simply build up the ULA registry at
http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/ula/list/

It'll be done poorly versus what a strong operation like ARIN is
capable of but it'll meet the actual registered ULA need.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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