On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 19:39 Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nico's use case seems a bit different though. He seems to be saying that there's a "ham radio" or "CB radio" type of use case where arbitrary sets of users anywhere in the world might want to route between themselves without paying any ISP for the privilege, so they'd like free address space too. Quite how they'd get the bandwidth without paying for it is a puzzle though. Generally that's the main cost element in ISP pricing.
Nico, a full length description of the use case as an Internet-Draft would be very helpful. We could take that to v6ops for discussion.
Regards
Brian
I assumed Nico was talking about some version of Community Networking.
or;
It is fairly common for Community Networks, especially wireless ones to use RFC 1918 for IPv4 and ULA for IPv6, and interconnect with other Community Networks over tunnels on donated ISP connectivity from participants or others. Ham radio is a good metaphor for this type of networking.
ARIN has a definition and policy for Community Networks again allow for /40 allocations.
Allowing options for Community Networks to use GUA instead of ULA.
Thanks
Thanks
