[155304] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 End User Fee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Sat Aug 4 06:02:05 2012
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 12:01:11 +0200
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <15599C39-A2F0-41ED-9148-DFE42A971764@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 08:31:06PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
> You MIGHT have paid some other organization for the privilege of transferring part or all of their registration rights to you.
>
> But in no case did you pay for the addresses themselves unless you are silly enough to think that a person can own an integer.
IPv6 missed a great chance of doing away with all the
central waterfall trickle-down space distribution.
Luckily, /64 looks like large enough to bypass that
by offering address space sufficiently large while
co-existable with legacy addressing and routing.
I hope eventually somebody will start
tinkering with mesh radios which also have GPS
onboard (as most smartphones and tablets do).
24 + 24 + 16 bits are just enough to represent
a decent-resolution WGS84 position fix. Plus,
GPS gives you a pretty accurate clock.
