Re: (ngtrans) Re: pTLA 3FFE:FFF0::/28 for test & example use per draft-blanchet-ipngwg-testadd-00.txt, closes 20Jun01

itojun@iijlab.net Thu, 07 June 2001 04:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: (ngtrans) Re: pTLA 3FFE:FFF0::/28 for test & example use per draft-blanchet-ipngwg-testadd-00.txt, closes 20Jun01
From: itojun@iijlab.net
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 13:28:10 +0900
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>as far as I can tell, this is very close to the same purpose as RFC 1918.
>I don't know why we would expect different results this time around.
>
>instead, why don't we encourage folks who are doing testing to get an IPv4
>address from somewhere (surely they can find one...) and use the 6to4
>address block derived from that IPv4 address?  they don't have to exchange
>traffic between those nodes and the rest of the network if they don't
>want to.  but if they later decide they do want to exchange traffic
>using those addresses, it will be possible for them to do so.

	we have a separate draft for this -
	draft-itojun-ipv6-local-experiment-02.txt.

	marc's one is more like "how to write example configuration down onto
	manual pages".  since we don't know what IPv4 address the readers
	would use, we cannot really generate 6to4 prefix.

itojun