Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt

Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com> Wed, 11 July 2007 00:22 UTC

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> > nope.
> 
> Hmmm.  I guess the alternative is that the purpose of ULA-C/G is to mitigate
> the risk of collision when merging on the order of hundreds of thousands of
> ULA networks in one routing realm... sort of like creating a "local DFZ" of
> a sort.
> 
> Forgive me, but that sounds even more surreal.  ...

if you're going to cons up a potential interpretation without knowing the
real answer, can you at least cons up one that makes sense to you?

> Is that the big driving factor here?

scott@internap has done a fine job of explaining that, today, again.

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