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

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Wed, 09 December 2020 12:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: Happy St Nicholas Day: Re-Launching the IPv6 ULA registry
To: Nico Schottelius <nico.schottelius@ungleich.ch>, Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com>
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On 9/12/20 07:42, Nico Schottelius wrote:
[...]
> 
> 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.

FWIW, I know of at least some people that have not only generated 
non-randomized ULA prefixes, but that have also generated them from 
fc00::/8 rather than fd00::/8.  So there could still be conflict with 
the "centralized" ULAs.

-- Me (culprit ;-) ), just providing a data-point :-)

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
e-mail: fgont@si6networks.com
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