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

[David Farmer <[e-mail]>]

First, please don't do this. As has been said, it is unnecessary and will,
unfortunately, lead some people to make erroneous conclusions. You are
trying to coordinate something that was intended to be uncoordinated, and
therefore you are trying to make ULA into something it wasn't intended to
be.

If you insist on doing this, please don't call it a Registry; that will
imply it is something akin to the RIRs and that will lead people to make
the erroneous conclusions I referred to. Furthermore, calling it a
Registry raises the questions like; Is it mandatory to register your ULA
prefix? Does the registry represent all ULA prefixes?

Possible words to use for this; Diary, Catalog, Journal, Ledger, Log, just
don't call it a Registry. Furthermore, clearly, statie use is optional and
by definition it is incomplete,

Thanks

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 5:19 PM Nico Schottelius <
[e-mail]> wrote:

>
> Good morning,
>
> we have just launched a ULA registry [0] as part of our IPv6 advent
> calander [1]. While the reception, openness and opinions of whether or
> not there should be a ULA registry at all differ, a ULA registry has
> been requested multiple times from our customers in the past.
>
> The source code of the ULA registry is fully Open Source and can be
> found on [2]. It currently operates using the fd00::/8 subnet, whereas
> draft-hain-ipv6-ulac-02 [3] suggests that RFC4193 should be followed for
> that subnet and fc00::/8 should have been taken for a ULA registry.
>
> However the original SixXS database records [4] on which we based our
> work operatios in fd00::/8 and according to wikipedia [5] there is no
> consensus over fc00::/8 in the IETF.
>
> Speaking for ungleich, we do not use ULA ourselves, however our users
> do. In this regard our position is somewhat neutral with the focus of
> "enable users to move forward with IPv6".
>
> However in the spirit of collaboration and finding a consensus for a ULA
> registration, we could imagine phasing in fc00::/8 as the default prefix
> for generating new prefixes while keeping the historic information of
> the previously registered prefixes that originally came from SixXS.
>
> Looking forward to your feedback.
>
> Best regards from the snowy mountains in Switzerland,
>
> Nico
>
> [0] https://ula.ungleich.ch/
> [1] https://ungleich.ch/u/advent-calendar/06/
> [2] https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/ipv6ula
> [3] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hain-ipv6-ulac-02
> [4] https://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/ula/list/
> [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address
>
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