[86667] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IAB and "private" numbering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Sun Nov 13 14:34:35 2005
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: peter@peter-dambier.de
Cc: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>,
nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:21:50 +0100."
<4377924E.109@peter-dambier.de>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:34:07 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In message <4377924E.109@peter-dambier.de>, Peter Dambier writes:
>
>Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>>
>...
>>
>> I don't believe there is a 'rfc1918' in v6 (yet), I agree that it doesn't
>> seem relevant, damaging perhaps though :)
>>
>
>Yes, there was rfc1918 in IPv6 right from the beginning:
>
>Site local addresses "0xF80" dont leave a site. They can be routed within
>a site but they never get outside. Just like rfc1918 addresses do.
>
Yes, and site-local addresses have been removed from the spec, because
of the many problems they cause.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
