Re: [info@arin.net: [arin-announce] ARIN Board Advises Internet Community on Migration to IPv6]

[bill fumerola <billf@mu.org>]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 01:08:09PM +0200, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 2007-05-22 09:43, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> ...
> >So why don't we implement a way for people to get centrally assigned 
> >ULAs? The simple way to do this is to sell prefixes of a suitable size 
> >(I'm thinking 20 bits worth) to people who are prepared to run a 
> >registry for further distribution. In practice, this means that pretty 
> >much everyone who sells domains will be selling ULA-cs, too. Simple, easy.
> 
> No need to create a market in integers. We can surely invent a robot
> to allocate and escrow pseudo-random 40 bit numbers at negligible cost,
> and therefore set up a free service.

someone already has:

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/rfc4193.ch


-- bill