On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Roland Bless <roland.bl...@kit.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > it seems that there is currently not much interest in ULA-Cs (centrally > assigned ULAs). I came across several use cases, where manufacturers > (e.g, those of cars, airplanes, or smart metering environments) > would need internal/closed IPv6-based networks (maybe only for internal > control and management), that have no connection to the Internet. > For several reasons (esp. security) those networks > should operate isolated and independent from the Internet. In some cases > these products or installations may get merged, so prefix uniqueness > would be beneficial. Using locally assigned ULAs still bears the risk of > getting conflicts between manufacturers, esp. when considering the > number of manufacturers and products.
why can't these just use globally unique addresses? are we certain they will never be connected to the Internet? (no really, you are sure? really?) -chris -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
