>> Pekka Savola wrote:
>> People didn't see the need for RFC1918 space in IPv6.

Because of site-locals. With site-locals gone it is an entirely new ballgame. There is 
a need for private addresses, people will use them no matter if they are site-locals, 
6to4 addresses with a v4 RFC1918 address or plain hijack of a global prefix like in 
the good old days. Then someone will write an RFC to try to contain the hijacks into a 
well-known range. I have a sense of d�j� vu.


> Tony Hain wrote:
> Just like they didn't see the need for private address space
> in IPv4 until there were massive deployments of whatever
> random numbers people found in documents. For those who have
> forgotten, private address space was not set aside to support
> NAT, it exists to provide space for disconnected networks,
> that won't collide with existing allocations when those attach.
> NAT came along later and took advantage of the existence of
> private space.
> There is a need for address space for disconnected networks.
> If the argument is to set aside a different set of address
> space and define it as unroutable, what is the point? We
> already have a defined unroutable space, what value does a
> different one add? Any issues that are raised for FEC0:: will
> hold for whatever new space gets defined.

Agree.

Michel.


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