Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 21:39:58 +0200, Daniel Roesen said:

> Nope. The ULID is supposed to be static, globally unique. Just not
> globally routed. Seperating topology from identification.
>
> Something I didn't see discussed yet is that shim6 sites would need to
> get a globally unique, provider independent /48 or larger... which folks
> could start to announce. But I guess that address space would come from
> blocks earmarked as "non-routable, it's a bogon, bad IP space, filter in
> BGP at first sight!". :-)

You know, if you describe it that way too many times, people who are only paying
half-attention are going to say "IPv6 has something almost like NAT, only different".

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