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Re: ULA (was Re: ARIN Board Advises Internet Community on Migration to IPv6)



On May 22, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Jason Schiller wrote:
3. RIRs are only giving out one aggregate per org as aggregation is important.
I was co-auther of the ARIN micro-allocation policy to allow a  
second aggregate for an org, under very strict conditions, one of  
which was that the justification to get it was that it would not be  
routed.
3. Get the RIR to give out more than one allocation per org.
A centrally-managed ULA differs from a centrally managed prefix of  
any other type in a pretty small way - it matches a certain  
filter. In any other sense, it is a second allocation to the  
administration in question, nothing more and nothing less.
So this is where I get stuck, at least a bit. A ULA *is* routed -  
within the network that uses it. So is a global prefix. If we choose  
to not advertise a global prefix outside of our domain, it is not  
routed. Ditto a ULA. Both depend on getting the filters right.
So, OK, I can see taking the "centrally managed" branch of ULAs as  
described in 4193 and saying that it is a filter that everyone has  
agreed to, and would have to be explicitly overridden in cases when  
one wants a ULA to cross administrative boundaries. It still requires  
the filter to be right. It just seems that you and your peer might  
possibly be more likely to back each other up with "don't advertise"  
and "don't accept" filters to handle the error cases.
Looking forward to the I-D, especially if someone wants this on the  
July agenda. Call me a Nazi, I want an I-D for anything on the agenda.