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Re: getting IPv6 space without ARIN (Re: PAT )

Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com> Thu, 17 August 2000 13:40 UTC

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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 08:37:19 -0500
From: Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: getting IPv6 space without ARIN (Re: PAT )
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"David R. Conrad" wrote:
...
> >   b) in the situation where I am using IPv6 instead of RFC1597, then
> >         my address can't be topologically significant.
> 
> If you're using this in the context of private networks, then any set of
> numbers would do.  Why not pick one at random?
> 

er, no. In this case you should use IPv6 site-local addresses.

Please, please, nobody ever pick a prefix at random. Your prefix should *always*
come from your upstream provider, up to the level of Top Level Aggregator,
which comes from a registry.

  Brian

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