Re: [v6ops] draft-moreiras-v6ops-rfc3849bis-00

[Bill Jouris <[e-mail]>]

> From: Owen DeLong <[e-mail]>
> To: Mark Andrews <[e-mail]> 
> Cc: Alejandro Acosta <[e-mail]>; [e-mail] 
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 10:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [v6ops] draft-moreiras-v6ops-rfc3849bis-00
 
>
>> 
>> All a documentation prefix will do is have one potentially toxic
>> prefix compared to a handful of potentially toxic prefixes.  There
>> are 1099511627776 prefixes in fd00::/8.  Even if there were thousands
>> of documentation prefixes the odds of you hitting one when generating
>> your own prefix are astronomically small.  Additionally the more
>> prefixes that are used in documentation the less toxic a particular
>> prefix will be.

> No, it will also help to constrain such errors to an easily identifiable single
> prefix which will make the errors easier to identify and correct. This is, IMHO,
> a worth while goal in the real world where operators actually run networks
> and have to deal with less than ideally trained predecessors and colleagues.
>
> Owen

One other thing: if you have a single documentation prefix, you can actually build that knowledge into your firewalls and routers -- meaning that anyone who does a copy without change will immediately find that his addresses simply don't work.  Making that particular error essentially self-correcting,

Bill Jouris
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