Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote on 21/01/2021 16:00:
Perhaps we should ask how registries can go wrong. Or maybe we should
ask the IAB to consider this.I can think of a few problems:
Integrity
* Duplicate registrations
* Unauthorized registration modification
* Unpublished registrations
* Inappropriate semantic mapping
Availability
* Rent seeking
* Denial of service
* Coercion by government
+ practical issues: insolvency, mismanagement, internal fraud, graft,
liabilities therefrom, corruption, threat of legal action due to
deregistration, threats from stakeholders / owners, etc.
OK so there is one 'risk' that perhaps should be mentioned openly
because it is likely the one of most concern to people, 'what are the
unexpected uses of these addresses' or 'what else is PHB planning he is
not telling us about'.
obviously raising prices 10x after lock-in has been achieved 👀
There's no shortage of failure modes.
The registry concern that is rarely considered in IETF is what happens
if there is no registry? There are two possibilities:
1) Innovation is put on hold until the registry is created.
2) People just create their own code points
The second has occurred on countless occasions and sometimes between
really big companies. Every hard drive has a unique identifier which is
actually in the MAC address space. After asking nicely and getting the
run-around, the drive makers just allocated themselves 1/16th of the
total MAC address space.
does this matter to the IEEE? I.e. is this a MAC?
Nick
