retransmit of: 6bone pTLA assignment rules

[bound@zk3.dec.com]

Bob,

>>How about you ask for some volunteers from the list to be part of the
>existing pTLAs?

>Don't quite follow your intent here...do you mean to setup a small advisory
>panel of folks to review these pTLA requests?

Exactly.  All pTLAs should be on it too.


>>Also I think folks who want to are out of IPv4 addresses but want to use
>>IPv6 addresses instead of IPv4 private addresses could come to us too?
>>They can be renumbered automatically via our addrconf and dhcp and
>>router renumbering once they get official IPv6 addresses.  So that I
>>think is another request you will be seeing soon.  Some thought on this
>>seems worthwhile..

>Remember that we can't support non-testing type traffic on the 6bone as
>many of the 6bone participants are R&D places whose AUPs would instantly be
>violated if they carried non testing traffic and would have to withdraw
>their support of the 6bone.

Good point.

>I've been thinking that we should consider a second network, not for test,
>that is similar to the 6bone (at least at the start), that provides a pTLA
>space for early real users prior to a real active TLA registry activity
>getting started up by IANA Inc., or whatver is agreed upon by the larger
>court of world-wide opinion and policy (please don't start that debate on
>this list).  

This is a good idea.  

>I say it in this way as the delays whilke the IANA Inc./IAHC/CORE/POC
>wars/debates/decisions take place may be long. In the interim we do need a
>way for people to get a routing prefix and be able to communicate with
>others that have IPv6 needs.
>
>Opinions anyone?

We need this for sure.  I need to think more and what we may want to do
is find out via you privately what pTLAs could participate in such an
effort and possibly this may be a way to draw new ISPs and Telcos to the
6bone in general?

/jim