Individual Submission G. Huston
Internet-Draft APNIC
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Administration of the IANA Special Purpose Address Block
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Abstract
This is a direction to IANA concerning the management of the IANA
Special Purpose IPv6 address assignment registry.
1. Introduction
This is a direction to IANA concerning the management of the IANA
Special Purpose IPv6 address assignment registry.
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2. IANA IPv6 Special Purpose Address Block
[RFC2928] specified the assignment of the IPv6 address prefix to
IANA. The rationale for this allocation is:
"The block of Sub-TLA IDs assigned to the IANA (i.e., 2001:
0000::/29 - 2001:01F8::/29) is for assignment for testing and
experimental usage to support activities such as the 6bone, and
for new approaches like exchanges."
[RFC2928]
This address allocation to IANA was intended to support testing and
experimental activities. A more general view of the roles of IANA
with respect to address allocation functions is documented in
[RFC2860]:
"4.3. [...] Note that [...] (b) assignments of specialised
address blocks (such as multicast or anycast blocks), and (c)
experimental assignments are not considered to be policy issues,
and shall remain subject to the provisions of this Section 4.
(For purposes of this MOU, the term "assignments" includes
allocations.)"
[RFC2860]
The reference to section 4 here is to the general technical work for
the IANA:
"4.1. The IANA will assign and register Internet protocol
parameters only as directed by the criteria and procedures
specified in RFCs, including Proposed, Draft and full Internet
Standards and Best Current Practice documents, and any other RFC
that calls for IANA assignment."
[RFC2860]
This document directs IANA to undertake designation of special
purpose address blocks within the purview of direct assignments by
the IANA under the terms of the assignment criteria specified in RFC
2928.
This document directs IANA to open a Special Purpose IPv6 address
registry for the management of these IANA-designated address blocks.
Special Purpose registrations to be made from this registry include
addresses for experimental purposes, as described in [RFC2928], and
other special purpose cases as documented in IESG-reviewed published
RFCs, according to the provisions described in section 4.1. of
[RFC2860].
3. IANA Considerations
IANA is directed to maintain an "IANA IPv6 Address Special Purpose
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Registry". The registry is to record current IANA address
designations from the IANA-managed Special Purpose IPv6 address pool.
This recommendation concerns the management of the address pool
assigned by the IETF to the IANA in July 1999 by [RFC2928], namely
2001:0000::/23. Further assignments of address space to IANA for
subsequent designation of address prefixes for the purposes listed
here shall be undertaken only in response to direction to IANA
provided by the IETF in a IESG-reviewed RFC document. Such
directions for assignments of address space to augment the IANA-
managed special purpose address pool should, in the general course of
events, be consistent with prevailing IANA IPv6 address management
policies [IPv6-Policies].
The IANA may undertake IPv6 address designations in support of
special purposes as requested in "IANA Considerations" sections in
IESG-reviewed RFCs, where a unicast address is requested with an
intended use of the designated address block for the purpose of
testing or experimental usage activities initiated by IETF, or for
specialised use of the address block within an anycast use context
associated with an Internet Standards track protocol.
The IANA IPv6 Special Purpose Address Registry shall record for all
current address designations undertaken by IANA:
1. The designated address prefix.
2. The RFC that called for the IANA address designation.
3. The date the designation was made.
4. The date the use designation is to be terminated (if specified as
a limited-use designation).
5. The nature of the purpose of the designated address (unicast
experiment or protocol service anycast).
6. If the purpose is an experimental unicast application, as
distinct from an anycast service address, then the registry will
also identify the entity and related contact details to whom the
address designation has been made.
7. The registry will also note for each designation the intended
routing scope of the address, indicating whether the address is
intended to be routeable only in scoped, local or private
contexts, or whether the address prefix is intended to be routed
globally.
The IANA registry shall note as a general comment that address
prefixes listed in the Special Purpose Address Registry are not
guaranteed routability in any particular local or global context.
IANA will not maintain further sub-registries for any special purpose
address block designated according to this direction.
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4. Security Considerations
Security of the Internet's routing system relies on the ability to
authenticate an assertion of unique control of an address block.
Measures to authenticate such assertions rely on validation that the
address block forms part of an existing allocated address block, and
that there is a trustable and unique reference in the IANA address
registries.
The proposed registry is intended to provide an authoritative source
of information regarding the currency and intended purpose of special
use IPv6 address blocks that are designated from the IANA-
administered Special Use registry. This is a small step towards the
creation of a comprehensive registry framework that can be used as a
trust point for commencing a chain of address validation.
Consideration should be given to IANA registry publication formats
that are machine parseable, and also the use of file signatures and
associated certificate mechanisms to allow applications to confirm
that the registry contents are current, and that they have been
published by the IANA.
5. Acknowledgements
The document was prepared with the assistance of Leslie Daigle, Brian
Haberman, Bob Hinden, David Kessens, Kurt Lindqvist, Thomas Narten
and Paul Wilson.
6. References
[IPv6-Policies]
IANA, "IPv6 Allocation and Assignment Policy", June 2006.
[RFC2860] Carpenter, B., Baker, F., and M. Roberts, "Memorandum of
Understanding Concerning the Technical Work of the
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority", RFC 2860, June 2000.
[RFC2928] Hinden, R., Deering, S., Fink, R., and T. Hain, "Initial
IPv6 Sub-TLA ID Assignments", RFC 2928, September 2000.
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Author's Address
Geoff Huston
Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
Email: gih@apnic.net
URI: http://www.apnic.net
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