Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 10:55:50 +0200
From: Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| FEC0::/48 is reserved and not to be used. (This is a shot at backwards
| compatibility for existing usage.)
I'm not sure that we really need that. That is, backwards compatibility
with what? On the other hand, making it very clear that "I pick 0"
is not choosing a random number would be worthwhile...
| FEC0::/11 is followed by a 37-bit number randomly allocated by the user.
| (We should recommend a method, and zero is forbidden.)
That's OK, 37 bits is at least half as good as 38...
| FEE0::/11 is reserved for future use. (Giving us time to work out how
| a fee-paying (pun) registry might work.)
We should obviously also reserve F1E0::/11 and F0E0::/11 (and then
someone just needs to figure out how to write "UM" in hex so we
can smell the blood...)
kre
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