> This would work, and would be acceptiable to most people if there was a > simple rule that worked, and would continue to work as the network grows. > My > concern is that an 'approximately unique' local address could at some > point > become less than unique and could cause routing problems when the address > is > eventually assigned. I mean, how many companies would use this > 'approximately unique' local address option and thus "claim" portions of > the > network, while the registreies are assigning addresses? Eventually there > will be legimate asigned users to some of these 'approximately unique' > local > addresses and this will cause problems later.
You can get verifiably unique addresses if you go through the registration procedure. So, if you follow the good housekeeping rules, you should never encounter the bug you mention. -- Christian Huitema -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
