We seem to have a situation of "globally-scoped, persistent, routable:
pick any two".  2000::/3 is globally-scoped and routable.  fec0::/10
is persistent and routable (within its scope).  To allow people the
freedom to "pick any two", we need a way to generate addresses that are
globally-scoped and persistent, without necessarily being (globally)
routable.  That's what fc00::/7 would achieve.

I note that in the architectural traditions of the Internet we're not
very good at handling addresses that are not both globally-scoped and
routable.  That's why we're having kittens trying to work out how to
deal with fec0::/10 and fc00::/7 addresses.

-zefram
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Andrew Main (Zefram) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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