At Sat, 23 Aug 2014 09:48:42 +0200,
Tore Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:

> > I assumed that stateless translation always uses the well-known
> > prefix.  Maybe I was incorrect about that?
>
> Yes, that is incorrect. Per RFC 6052 the operator can use either the
> Well-Known Prefix and a Network-Specific Prefix. There are quite few
> reasons why one would choose the latter; for example it allows for the
> translating device to be reached across the public internet. Another
> reason is that only a single WKP exists, so if the operator wants to
> deploy both SIIT and NAT64, and/or multiple instances of either
> technology, all of his deployments (except for one), must necessarily
> use an NSP.

Okay, thanks for the correction.  In that case this approach cannot be
a complete alternative to dropping PTB<1280 unconditionally without
affecting possible existing/coming deployments.

--
JINMEI, Tatuya

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