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|    Victor Sudakov to Markus Reschke    |
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|    27 Jan 19 21:12:10    |
      Dear Markus,              27 Jan 19 13:49, you wrote to me:               VS>> Good point. Thank you. Maybe fc00::/7 has a chance of becoming        VS>> the new 192.168/16.               MR> I'd recommend to use fd00::/8 since fc00::/8 was meant to be some kind        MR> of globally unique local address space managed by a registry (-> B2B        MR> VPNs).              fc00::/7 is from RFC4193, and where is fd00::/8 defined?               VS>> I don't think enterprise-class firewalls have UPnP, do they?               MR> Most don't. But you never know what e-junk some company uses. >:)               VS>> And thinking about SOHO and home routers/firewalls, what kind of        VS>> IPv6 connectivity are they going to have, what do you think?        VS>> Those present who have native IPv6 connectivity, what's your        VS>> ISP's policy on assigning addresses to customers?               MR> /64 as xfer network and a /56 for the LAN (both dynamic, forced change        MR> every 6 months).              If you want a static address?               VS>> Interesting. Do you know of any implementations that could        VS>> translate ULA addresses into one global /64 pool?               MR> Cisco, Juniper, Linux, ...        MR> However, you need to check the details for each box and firmware. For        MR> example, Linux can hide the complete LAN behind a single IPv6 address.              That's nice.              Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN       --- GoldED+/BSD 1.1.5-b20160322-b20160322        * Origin: Ulthar (2:5005/49)    |
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