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Re: [v6ops] Scope of Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-6man-ipv6-ula-scope-00.txt)

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Thu, 07 January 2021 11:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Scope of Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-6man-ipv6-ula-scope-00.txt)
To: David Farmer <farmer=40umn.edu@dmarc.ietf.org>
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David Farmer wrote on 07/01/2021 11:08:
> What do other people think?

that ULA is a poor idea to start with, and that attempting to 
encapsulate its scope characteristics within 1, or 2, or even 3 words is 
unlikely to succeed in a way which encompasses its full subtlety.  We 
are better off sticking with a particular phrase (the exact choice of 
which will end up disappointing some or maybe lots of people) and then 
defining what that means in free-text.  This seems to be what 
draft-gont-6man-ipv6-ula-scope is attempting to do.

Nick

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