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Re: Adoption Call for <draft-troan-6man-universal-ra-option>

Philip Homburg <pch-ipv6-ietf-7@u-1.phicoh.com> Fri, 24 September 2021 11:35 UTC

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>Here in Victoria, Australia, there are 4 electricity smartmeter networks
>with a total of about 2.4 million meters attached, all using IPv6 only and
>all addressed out of the ULA address space.
>
>The smartmeters don't have access to the Internet. It's ULAs to one side of
>the management systems, and IPv4 on the other facing the corporate network.
>
>Far from a corner case. Just not visible outside of that industry.

I seems to me that with 2.4 million devices, it is quite possible to ask
a RIR for some addresses. Of course, perfectly fine that ULA works as well.

I assume that each smartmeter gets a default route. So for the meter,
it is as if the meter is connected to the internet.

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