And the fact is that enterprise network managers are very happy to have a class of addresses that cannot be globally routed and are filtered by default as bogons by all ISPs. So they just love RFC 1918 addresses for that, and hate them for their ambiguity (since that creates a mess when they have to be routed anyway, e.g. on VPNs). The main point of this draft, as far as I'm concerned, is to convey this requirement, which isn't met either by PA prefixes or the old SL prefix.
Brian Patrik Fältström wrote: > > On onsdag, aug 6, 2003, at 19:14 Europe/Stockholm, Tony Hain wrote: > > >> In IPv6 world, real addresses can and should be used. > > > > Real or imaginary are perspectives of the onlooker. I suspect you > > intended > > 'globally routed'. > > Yes, sorry. As I only work in this space (below transport) with > scuba-gear on, I often make mistakes when selecting crisp wording. > > paf > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Brian E Carpenter Distinguished Engineer, Internet Standards & Technology, IBM NEW ADDRESS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PLEASE UPDATE ADDRESS BOOK -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------