[131169] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 ? Unique local addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Thu Oct 21 00:44:48 2010
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:44:40 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Graham Beneke <graham@apolix.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <4CBFC3C9.706@apolix.co.za>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010, Graham Beneke wrote:
> I've seen this too. Once again small providers who pretty quickly get
> caught out by collisions.
>
> The difference is that ULA could take years or even decades to catch
> someone out with a collision. By then we'll have a huge mess.
You assume that people simply select ULA prefixes randomly and don't
start doing linear allocations from the beginning of the ULA range.
Adrian
