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Re: (ngtrans) Re: again: draft-blanchet-ipngwg-testadd-00.txt

Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> Wed, 27 June 2001 20:29 UTC

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From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
cc: ngtrans@sunroof.eng.sun.com
Subject: Re: (ngtrans) Re: again: draft-blanchet-ipngwg-testadd-00.txt
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Robert Elz wrote:
> The bigger concern, than the size, is that we might one day want fe00::/9
> for more kinds of "local" addresses (to sit next to site local and link local).
> That one when I initially thought about this I decided wasn't worth worrying
> about - the alternative would be to use fc00::/8 for this, and leave fe00::/9
> vacant.  That looked backwards, and to actually be a waste.

IMO, fe00 written just so looks awfully close to fe80.

It would be nice if it was more clearly separate, like 10::/8 (analogy to
10.0.0.0/8); however using these kind of address blocks might not be
possible from the allocation point of view.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
Systems. Networks. Security.  -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords

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