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.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

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