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Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Thomas)
Wed Jul 18 10:27:29 2012

Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 07:26:25 -0700
From: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
To: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <34110.1342617033@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On 07/18/2012 06:10 AM, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:04:05 +0300, Saku Ytti said:
>
>> However I'm not sure what would be good seed? ISO3166 alpha2 +
>> domestic_business_id + 0..n (for nth block you needed)
> You want to roll in at some entropy by adding in the current date or
> something, so two "Joes' Burritos and Internet" in 2 different states don't
> generate the same value.  There's a reason that 4193 recommends
> a 64bit timestamp and an EUI64.
>

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Mike



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