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Re: [v6ops] FW: New Version Notification for draft-ipversion6-loopback-prefix-00.txt

Nick Hilliard <nick@inex.ie> Mon, 16 February 2015 11:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] FW: New Version Notification for draft-ipversion6-loopback-prefix-00.txt
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On 16/02/2015 09:39, Erik Kline wrote:
>> If ICANN want to do the above for IPv6, they should instead reserve a
>> new IPv6 prefix, similar to how RFC6666 defines a special purpose
>> discard prefix. There is plenty of IPv6 space to do so, rather than
>> creating a single address exception out of a block of addresses that
>> has or would have a well known expected purpose and behaviour.
> 
> Ah, then perhaps they could even just use 0100::53:53 (or 0100::35:35).

Or not.  There isn't a shortage of candidate ipv6 prefixes, so why squat on
the discard prefix?

Nick

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