Good evening, David Farmer <farmer@xxxxxxx> writes: > I assumed Nico was talking about some version of Community Networking. > > https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/community-networks/ > or; > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_community_network That is correct. Or rather well known in our region: https://freifunk.net/, mostly based on a modified OpenWrt version. > 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. ULA is very dominant in these networks and it's probably also one of the sources we got the first requests for establishing the ULA registry. > ARIN has a definition and policy for Community Networks again allow for /40 > allocations. > https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/nrpm/#2-11-community-network > https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/nrpm/#6-5-9-community-network-allocations That is actually a *much* better approach than using ULA. As mentioned before, the $250 tag is significantly better than 4 digit+, but could still be improved. [see next mail] -- Sustainable and modern Infrastructures by ungleich.ch