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Re: [74attendees] The great emphasis on IPv6 - a positive look



Francis Dupont wrote:
>  In your previous mail you wrote:
> 
>    Of course. But as Jeroen said, please read RFC3056. The only more-specifics
>    under 2002::/8 that make any sense whatsoever are /48, and there would
>    *potentially* be about 300,000 of them today, one per announced IPv4 network
>    More specifics under 2002::/8 are very much not allowed. Mr R. Bush gave
>    us a very hard time about that before RFC3056 was approved.
>    
> => unfortunately if someone does it there is nothing we can do (no
> Internet police :-). I am afraid one day we regret not have adopted
> my proposal to reverse the bits of the embedded IPv4 address, a drastic
> way to enforce no spurious injection of the IPv4 mess into the IPv6
> routing table...

That would have been a partial solution indeed that would have voided
any person from attempting to do so indeed ;)

Fortunately 2002::/16 is very well filtered. And people who do try that
one will be shot on site, thus this is a non-issue IMHO.

Greets,
 Jeroen

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