I have long thought that the knowledge of having long (life-long) persistent, well-spread unique personal identifiers are bad was general knowledge. Then again, I guess the US biometric stuff has proven me wrong on that already.
I am not sure I understand the English of this remark. I suppose you mean that you thought if everyone known a user 's persistent number the user would be worried? If this is the case, it only makes my points that IETF lacks market studies and reporting from the end-users. This a general demand that Telephone companies hesitated to provide due to the complexity until mobiles came in. Now it is a simple common demand to have on fixed lines the same features as on mobiles (permanent and temporary numbers).
This does not mean that you are bound to a single number, the same you are not bound to a single mobile. Let not think "the users should do it the way I think", but "I am to permit the users to do it the way I never thought they would do it", because it is generally the way these people behave ....
Does this respond your remark?
I am going for the sake of argument to go along with your reasoning above (although I don't agree). Apparently there is something here to be gained, as we need to 'promote' a particular technology that is under control of intergovernmental treaties. First of all, what would the sales pitch be? I am seriously interested, and as you are arguing for this model you must have an answer. Second, if I understand you correctly above, you are implying this is not a 'free service' today, while it would be under the ITU, sanctioned by governments. Correct? In your view, how would allocations of IP addresses and ports, and protocol numbers be made? Last, how would a address policy process look like under the ITU and international treaties?
OK. Until this threat I was embarrassed because I thought that "real world evidences" were too far away from IPv6 designers. When Quite - and Aaron confirmed - said that IPv6 was IPv4 with larger addresses, I started thinking that we could make it, even with NATs which belong to the IPv4 world. Let consider what is new in IPv6 and where are the problems.
We have several propositions :
- IPv6=IPv4+longer addresses
- NGN is many things needing long addresses (may be /256) using IP as their core (ITU)
- IETF is accustomed to small ISP operators, the rest of the world deregulates big Telcos.
- there are 800 millions of Internet users and 1.3 billions of mobile owners.
NGN shows that the world (in general) is not opposed to the IP technology. OK.
Web deployment and mobiles show that the users have developed a brainware where names and numbers have their different roles which are not far from their technology purpose and that people know how to play with them. OK.
Everyone agrees that we need more addresses; so everything seems fine. Except that it does not catch. Why ?
I think it does not catch, because this is the old IPv4 model, that it still relies on ISPs and that if addresses are longer they still are far too short. Because they are managed by RIRs who have no societal and no political power. But mainly because we consider the wrong product: no one is interested in the Version 6 of the IP protocol. There are a lot of people interested in the management and political capacity to manage /128 long addresses.
The real product is the addressing plan. And the reasons why no one is excited are that:
- these addresses are managed "a la IPv4", as a unique Vint Cerf's/ICANN numbering area. This is what they want to correct with ITU. I submit there is no conflict. IPv6 has 6 different numbering plans. Let say that 001 is for the US Vint's legacy and 011 for international. That Vint can manage the 001 area and the ITU the 011 area. This is status quo.
- now, the way ITU wants to manage the international digital address numbering plan is in using DCC (or the like). (DCC is data country code). The same as there are ccTLDs in naming. So Frank has no problem for his SOPAC islands. They are entitled as many addresses as others. Does that change anything for the RIRs and the routing? No, this is simple address management.
- the way the countries will manage their numbering space is up to them. But if I refer to the telephone solutions, my guess is that many will differentiate routing and addressing in a very simple way (and this is certainly what the ART (French FCC) wants to hear about - because this is what users want : IP addresses are to be independent from the ISP). This means that they will allocate national IDs that you will be able to use as a NetworkID or as a UserID. And you will probably get the UserID for free at birth or creation, probably additional ones on a small fee and you will pay for the routing to your NetworkID.
How does that fit into a /128? Very simply. The final global network address will result from the concatenation (probably described in 0-Z numbering) of :
- a numbering plan header (like 011) + may be one or two additional digits to qualify plans, documentation, anycast, multicast, and he type of service/network (like telephone, Internet, TV, Radio, Posts, etc. )
- DCC+national number as a Network ID. Global routing is made at this level.
- DCC+national number as a UserID. Network local routing is made on that one.
- users interfaces.
This means that when I subscribe to a network or another I will keep my same UserID in each network, but my number starts with the NetworkID of the access provider. So, if I concatenate the traffic of several ISP this makes no problem. I can even pay these ISP on the basis of the datagrams they carried. A mobile changing from network will be easily followed. The /128 address of my French mobile when I travel in Korea will be will be 011xx+KoreanISP+FrenchID. No different from having jefsey.com, jefsey.org, jefsey.net.
This means that everyone has an address for his web/mail, for broadcasting TV or cognitive radio, etc. You can discuss international agreements, establish treaties on content, on address-back (feed back on an address?) payment authentication, establish usage warranties and insurances, etc, etc. We are in regalian (Government role) business.
Obviously there are objections. And these objections are what has to be worked on to sell "IPv6".
0. there is no more way to make money worldwide because I have been given an Excel table to fill. IDs will be allocated by Govs the way they want. What will be paid to RIR, NIR or LIR will be their real service with QoS control. This calls probably for a new economic model.
1. there is no room enough in /64 as actually (if I understand well) /128 addresses are just /32 addresses extended to /64 with a user subaddress payload. User addresses will probably requires /80 or /96. Less than half in the routing tables. But structuring may permit clever thinking.
2. there are much more needs to address virtual objects than just computer ports. So wee need to establish a numeric root of the numbering schemes accessible through the network, to give them an addressing capacity (this is what we called the Uninum proposition) of an unlimited size (their purpose is not necessarily to number network entities, but to number entities which can be reached through the network). They may eventually be supported by numeric names. These addresses will become more and more important as unique lingual and time independent references. But this is another aspects of the changes we needs.
I rushed this. I hope it is clear enough. jfc
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