> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Keith Moore wrote: > > > RFC 3056 says: > > > > > > Suppose that a subscriber site has at least one valid, globally > > > unique 32-bit IPv4 address, referred to in this document as > > > V4ADDR. This address MUST be duly allocated to the site by an > > > address registry (possibly via a service provider) and it MUST > > > NOT be a private address [RFC 1918]. > > > > > > Now, which word in "MUST NOT" is hard to understand? > > > > well, we don't say that hosts should block them. > > IMHO that would the wrong thing to do. The hosts should not care > whether the prefix they're autoconfiguring from is from 2002::/16 or > some other block. They don't implement 6to4, so making them care > would seem like a layer violation.
things that make no sense should be filtered, just like packets sourced from a broadcast address. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
