-- mercredi, octobre 23, 2002 10:43:58 -0400 Thomas Narten
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote/a �crit:

> I'd like to formally request the following from the WG on this
> document:
> 
>  - I'd like to see it become a WG document (to become a BCP RFC)
> 
>  - I'd like for folks here to review it and post any issues they have
>    with it
> 
>  - I'd like to call special attention to the following text that it
>    includes:
>  
>>    In addition, experience with IPv4 has shown that it is useful to
>>    reserve an address block for documentation purposes that will never
>>    be assigned for actual use in a network [DOC]. Such addresses can
>>    safely be used in documentation, without the worry that someone will
>>    accidentally (and incorrectly) configure them on a real network and
>>    cause traffic intended for the legitimate owner of those addresses to
>>    be impacted.
>> 
>>    This document reserves the IPv6 address block XXXX::/32 for
>>    documentation purposes.
> 
> There has been some private discussion about the need for addresses
> for documentation, but it's probably worth discussing how much address
> space is needed for this purpose, and what the prefix should be (e.g.,
> allocate out of 001/3?). the /32 length is a strawman.
> 

- great to see that the proposal I made on address space for documentation
is surviving! 
- I would propose that at least the space reserved is in well known
boundaries: /16, /24, /32.
- 3fff::/16 is for me the best: it is large, but simple and would cover
most cases needed. 
- if not agreeable (too large), then /24. which would have room for
aggregates in bgp routing.

Marc.

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