Re: [v6ops] [lisp] Comments to draft-mlevy-v6ops-auto-v6-allocation-per-asn

SM <sm@resistor.net> Sun, 24 February 2013 07:44 UTC

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Cc: "Martin J. Levy" <martin@he.net>, v6ops@ietf.org, lisp@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [v6ops] [lisp] Comments to draft-mlevy-v6ops-auto-v6-allocation-per-asn
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At 17:09 19-02-2013, Owen DeLong wrote:
>One of us is misunderstanding the other. My point is that using IPv6 
>address space to number things that are not IPv6 hosts is, IMHO, a bad idea.

It's not the first time that the idea came up.  It's not because 
there is a seemingly infinite source of integers that they should be 
assigned to any thing.

Regards,
-sm