Itojin has a similar draft out. We beat him up about "snitching"
a chunk from the WIDE delegation.
We already have one dead space, the range that was used prior to
the 6bone. This was the "glue your ASN in and get your range"
block that Postel, Deering, & Hindon (I think) put together.
%
% I have no problem with the general idea of this draft (reserving
% an address block to use in documentation, examples, etc), but the
% address block chosen is the wrong one.
%
% If an address block is to be picked for this, then it should be one
% that is, on the face if it, not a valid address block, not just
% a piece carved out of the regular address space, and which looks
% just like everyone else's address (even if an expert can tell that
% it is one that shouldn't be used).
%
% I'd have thought the example learned from Sun's use of 192.9.200
% as its documentation example would have made that clear - that was
% equivalent to a reserved address (reserved by Sun, as one of their
% addresses, rather than by IANA, but that's an irrelevant difference).
% 192.9.200 looks like a valid address, so lots of the world simply
% copied it to their nets. I suspect there are probably still large
% numbers of nets numbered from that /24.
%
% I don't have a particular alternative in mind, but just to throw
% out a suggestion, something like 0000:DEAD::/48 (or /32 if needed)
% would be a good example prefix to use. It is already in the reserved
% space, so doesn't need to be treated specially, though it should be
% documented as being available for use in examples, and only in examples.
%
% Or perhaps even 0000:FFFF:DEAD::/48 if you want to put something closer
% to the end of an address "block". Or 00FF:DEAD::/48 - you get the picture.
%
% kre
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