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Subject:    (IPng 4042) Re:  Permanent IP addresses should be available as
From:       Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco ! com>
Date:       1997-06-22 1:28:46
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At 08:35 PM 06/21/97 -0400, Edward Ing wrote:

>To maintain the original spirit of the Internet -- accessibitity to
>cheap and free global communications -- rights to the use of a fixed IP
>addresses should be a cheap commodity rather than an expensive item
>horded by ISPs and sold at a premium to their clients.
>
>In implementing IPv6, has the IETF made considerations how the IP
>addresses will be distributed in such a way that the zillions of new IP
>address, made available by adopting IPv6, will not be horded but be
>easily obtainable by individauls and small groups of individuals.
>
>Edward Ing
>
>P.S. If this is not the appropiate place for discussing this issue,
>please direct me to an organization, mailing list or newsgroup to which
>I can vent my thoughts.

This is indeed an inappropriate forum for discussion of this issue.

I would suggest that the issue is more appropriately discussed in
the forums which also discuss IPv4 address allocation, however,
there are certain indications that discussions regarding IPv6 
address allocation are not quite ready for primetime. In fact,
there is currently dissension on IPv4 address allocation.

As an aside, the confounding problem with IPv6 address allocation
is not that someone may try to hoard address space, it is more
an issue of not increasing the size of the global routing table
by additional prefixes by allocation without the capability to
aggregate.

And while the final IPv6 address format is in limbo, it will
probably be some time before these issues are visited.

- paul

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