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Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Fri, 31 May 2019 20:10 UTC

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To: Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf@gmail.com>
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Fred Baker wrote on 31/05/2019 18:17:
> To my way of thinking, the issues in that could be resolved by a
> software update (to install 2000::/3 and 4000::/3) when it needs to
> happen - we get software updates for other reasons, why not that as
> well?

2000::/3 will be hard-coded into configurations, not just software. 
This makes it more difficult because configurations are harder to change 
than software.

Ted's idea has plenty of merit.

Nick

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