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Re: [v6ops] IPv6 addressing: Gaps? (draft-gont-v6ops-ipv6-addressing-considerations)

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Thu, 18 February 2021 21:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] IPv6 addressing: Gaps? (draft-gont-v6ops-ipv6-addressing-considerations)
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Ted,

On 18/2/21 18:16, Ted Lemon wrote:
> This is wrong:
> 
>     Therefore, ULAs are not globally meaningful and thus, for most (if
>     not all) practical purposes, ULAs can be considered to have non-
>     global scope.  For this reason, ULAs are treated as non-global scope
>     addresses, even when from a specifications point of view they have
>     global scope.
> 
> 
> ULAs are explicitly global in scope. Please don’t try to change this in 
> an informational document. The other text in this section is fine.

FWIW, the intent in this Section wasn't to change that.  The text was 
meant that, when discussing how "scope" affects other properties of IPv6 
addresses, for all practical purposes ULAs have limited scope.

This text predates draft-gont-6man-ipv6-ula-scope which effectively does 
try to formally update the scope of ULAs.

P.S.: I will update the text before the cut-off.

Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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