Strong +1. This is an obvious, useful, rational and alas, strictly
irrelevant point. Which I agree with.

-G

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:51 PM, David Conrad <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > On Oct 1, 2015, at 10:45 AM, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>> Uh, no.  The *only* loopback address is ::1.  The rest of 0000::/8 is
> reserved.
> >>
> >> Anything is a loopback address if you alias it on your loopback
> interface.
> >>
> >> ::2 was only intended as an example (that's why I said "salt to taste"),
> >> but it was not a particularly well-chosen one.
> >
> > On your system, I'm sure it works fine.  On other systems that
> > implement IPv6 in other ways, maybe not.
>
> Which is why I think
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ipversion6-loopback-prefix-00
>
> should be resurrected (not directly relevant to DNSOP of course).
>
> Regards,
> -drc
>
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