Hey Leo, Leo Vegoda <leo@vegoda.org> writes:
## Motivation
The Motivation is:
- with GUA, potential connectivity to the Internet later does not require renumbering - with GUA, reverse DNS is easily possible
I don't understand the motivation. What kind of organisation would have so much "not Internet connected" infrastructure that renumbering would be a significant burden but not be able to afford the RIPE NCC's annual membership fee?
This is basically any community driven organisation which consist of volunteers.
Looking at the fees published at https://www.ripe.net/publications/ripe-ncc-organisational-documents/charging... they appear to have gone down over the last decade. Is there a class of organisation that has lots of infrastructure but can't budget for these relatively modest annual fees?
While I am not arguing against RIPE's (or ARIN or any RIR) fee, we are talking about 1400 Euro yearly, or roughly 100 Euro/month. Doesn't sounds a lot, but is quite a committment from what I can see. I am aware of clubs or organisations which are barely making a 0 at the end of the month or year in terms of finances. But I think you have a point, the question is who cannot afford it and who would actually be interested in it. To clarify this question, I've setup a small survey on https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/2021-12-23-ipv6-addresses-for-free/
And if the registry or registries you propose are charging so much less, or even free at the point of use, how can they provide a resilient and robust set of registry and DNS services that will last for as long as the users need?
The idea would be to go with a sponsored (companies/organisations) or volunteer based service matching the target audience.
I'd love to get a better understanding of the needs of the anticipated user base and the risks that they need to protect themselves from.
<claim> The status quo is: - Community projects use ULA, because it's easy and free <---------------------------------| - ULA does not have an official registry (and seems to be unlikely that we go there) | - GUA might be an easy way out of this | - However GUA costs real money -------------------------------------------------------------| </claim> And the motivation is to reach: - Community projects can use GUA for free <--| \------------------------------------------| Does it make sense? Cheers, Nico -- Sustainable and modern Infrastructures by ungleich.ch