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Re: Happy St Nicholas Day: Re-Launching the IPv6 ULA registry

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Tue, 08 December 2020 10:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: Happy St Nicholas Day: Re-Launching the IPv6 ULA registry
To: Nico Schottelius <nico.schottelius@ungleich.ch>
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Nico,

Nico Schottelius wrote on 07/12/2020 22:30:
> In this regard I somewhat disagree: From my point of view no ULA
> registry will ever be fully authoritative

No ULA registry will ever be authoritative in any way.

As a separate concern, without a garbage-collection mechanism, any 
registry will end up being full of garbage in the longer term.

Nick

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