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

"Carlos Pignataro (cpignata)" <cpignata@cisco.com> Tue, 17 February 2015 16:43 UTC

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From: "Carlos Pignataro (cpignata)" <cpignata@cisco.com>
To: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
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On Feb 16, 2015, at 8:09 PM, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com<mailto:lorenzo@google.com>> wrote:

The value of the loopback prefix is not that it's routed to loopback. It's that *everybody knows* it's always routed to loopback.


+1.

By the way, another use case for a loopback block is in http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7439#section-3.4.2

Thanks,

— Carlos.

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