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Re: For whom is IPv6? [was: Happy St Nicholas Day: Re-Launching the IPv6 ULA registry]

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Mon, 14 December 2020 20:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: For whom is IPv6? [was: Happy St Nicholas Day: Re-Launching the IPv6 ULA registry]
To: Nico Schottelius <nico.schottelius@ungleich.ch>
Cc: Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf@gmail.com>, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>, ipv6@ietf.org
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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 09:07:17 +1300
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On 15-Dec-20 02:28, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> 
> Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On 14-Dec-20 16:57, Fred Baker wrote:
>>> What is your budget, personally, for IANA services? Yes, there needs to be money, but my understanding is as a permanent ULA registry would be nothing more than “a registry”, of which they operate hundreds.
>>
>> Yes, if a suitably rich organization would agree to take this on as a permanent
>> & free service. That is something that would need a policy decision, not just
>> a technical decision, which is why I called it a challenge, not a problem.
> 
> Out of curiosity: how are policy decisions taken and what is the process
> for initiating one?

IMHO that is a non-trivial question, compared to how technical decisions
are taken (which is basically defined by RFC2026). But for this case, if
we are talking about ULA space (which is what RFC2860 calls a "specialised
address block") the answer seems to be that the IESG can give instructions
to IANA. That is quite different from regular IP address space, where
policy is set by ICANN under RFC2860. However, unless ICANN itself was
willing to provide a free registry for ULA-C, I suppose the IETF/IESG
would have to find someone willing to do so and negotiate an agreement.

    Brian

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> Nico
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