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Re: IPv6 words

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen van Aart)
Thu Jun 23 19:57:18 2011

Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:55:55 -0700
From: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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William Herrin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net> wrote:

>> able to request IPv6 blocks that have some sort of fancy name of your
>> choice.
> 
> 4-character or shorter hex words, for your reference:
> 
> aced
> ace5
> ac1d

:-D

Thanks.

I wonder about 2001:db8

The person who made it up must like the movie "2001: a space odyssey" 
and Aston Martin. Even though I don't think they ever made a db8, but 
they made or make db2, db4, db5, db6, db7 and db9 amongst others.

Greetings,
Jeroen

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