[75244] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Tue Nov 9 12:25:01 2004
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 19:24:32 +0200 (IST)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@mail.iucc.ac.il>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20041109162909.GC40147@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>
> In a message written on Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 11:51:10AM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> > Perhaps Nokia wants to make cellphones with a fixed IPv6 number - as it
> > leaves the factory? -Hank
>
> It was relayed to me that at least one group was asking about using
> IPv6 addresses to replace UPC codes, since they are running out of
> UPC codes. I believe they were told that would be inappropriate.
And I bet someone will then think of a good reason why each product would
then need a /64. :-)
-Hank
>
> However, if you can get addresses for free, and they are guaranteed
> to be globally unique, and not to appear on the public internet I'm
> not sure what the barrier to such an application would be....
>
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