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

Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Tue, 17 February 2015 02:24 UTC

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From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 11:23:57 +0900
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] FW: New Version Notification for draft-ipversion6-loopback-prefix-00.txt
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Falcon Darkstar Momot <
falcon@iridiumlinux.org> wrote:

> Allocating a large swath of IPv6 address space, even though we have a
> lot of it, seems like exactly the wrong thing to do here -- addresses
> are addresses, not tags.
>

That doesn't make sense. A /64 *is* a large swath of IPv6 address space.
And there are lots of them.