Re: Happy St Nicholas Day: Re-Launching the IPv6 ULA registry

[Nico Schottelius <[e-mail]>]

Hey Ted,

Ted Hardie <[e-mail]> writes:
> [...]
> Because of how they [ULAs] are created, ULAs do not admit of such an
> authoritative list.
> [...]

I understand your point and I think the whole ULA discussion could
instantly be stopped, iif everyone had easy access to free IPv6 address
space. As far as I can see PI space is not an option because of the
current high administrative challenges (both as LIR and as a requestor).

On the danger of going down the rabbit hole, I propose that ungleich
provides an open source, open data, for-free ULA registry (*) using the
fc00::/8 prefix that has been discussed before as centrally managed.

This way there is no conflict with self assignment / self managed
fd00::/8 range and neither the data nor the implementation is locked to
stay with ungleich in the future in case
IETF/IANA/any-of-the-five-RIRs/$other_org wants to take over.

Best regards,

Nico

(*) The source code is already open source, usage is for free already,
however so far there is no automated data export, which we could
implement on a CSV basis and automatically update once per day.

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