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Re: There are claims of ambiguity over what is a link-local address

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Mon, 07 May 2012 06:57 UTC

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Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 07:56:54 +0100
From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: There are claims of ambiguity over what is a link-local address
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On 2012-05-07 00:59, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 	See the nanog thread starting here:
> 	http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2012-May/048079.html
> 

I'm sure the intention was to reserve the entire /10 prefix
but it's correct that the RFC is not clear about this.
Seems like an erratum is needed.

   Brian

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