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

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Mon, 14 December 2020 21:41 UTC

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From: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
To: David Farmer <farmer@umn.edu>
cc: Nico Schottelius <nico.schottelius@ungleich.ch>, David Farmer <farmer=40umn.edu@dmarc.ietf.org>, ipv6@ietf.org
Subject: Re: For whom is IPv6? [was: Happy St Nicholas Day: Re-Launching the IPv6 ULA registry]
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David Farmer <farmer@umn.edu> wrote:
    >> I think maybe a call for sponsors (and ungleich would certainly be one
    >> of them) could show who would be interested in this role.


    > I don’t think $250 is the right number for this, it is the current
    > minimum number for ARIN region. Should it be less, yes it should be, at
    > least for community networks, in my opinion, but who qualifies and
    > under what terms.

    > Community networks aren’t the only ones that want something like ULA-C,
    > and plenty of the others that want ULA-C can and should pay their
    > freight.  Plenty of corporations want address space that is filtered by
    > default in the DFZ but they can associate and secure communication with
    > their business partners, and know for sure it is a particular business
    > partner.

Agreed.

    > I’m not sure all users should get ULA-C for free because one class of
    > user needs it to be free and is probably justified to receive it for
    > free.

It's not the dollar amount that matters in this case, but rather, the
bureaucracy required to raise the PO.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>   . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
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