Re: Wade through the archives (was Re: another renumbering question)

[Erik Nordmark]

> But speaking of existing implementations, what would happen if an existing
> router advertised to an existing host that one of the host's prefixes
> contained a site ID (that is, a site-local with a non-zero 38-bit number).
> Presumably the host would accept it?

They should since the site-local prefix is fec0::0/10,
but there is some risk that implemetors think that the site-local
prefix is fec0::0/48 (since all those bits are mandated to be zero).
Thus it would make sense to do a quick survey of existing
implementations.

   Erik

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