Re: [v6ops] [EXTERNAL] Re: Scope of Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-6man-ipv6-ula-scope-00.txt)

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Tue, 16 February 2021 15:38 UTC

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From: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] [EXTERNAL] Re: Scope of Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-6man-ipv6-ula-scope-00.txt)
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On 16/2/21 12:17, Ted Lemon wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2021, at 10:09 AM, Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com 
> <mailto:fgont@si6networks.com>> wrote:
>> But reading the "ipv6 scoped addressing architecture" (RFC4007) would 
>> have suggested that what they did is correct.
> 
> RFC 4007 doesn’t mention ULAs, so they wouldn’t have differentiated them 
> from other addresses on the basis of RFC 4007.

It doesn't mention ULAs, because it predates it.

But it is an *architecture* document (that what it claims to be). Hence, 
you'd assume that protocols reflect the architecture.


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