Re: What to do with FEC0? [was Re: Moving forward on Site-Local and Local Addressing

2003-08-18 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm expecting, by the way, that the deprecation will leave fec0::/10 to be treated as global-scope unicast addresses, rather than making fec0::/10 addresses cease to function altogether. That's an interesting expectation. As co-author of the

Re: What to do with FEC0? [was Re: Moving forward on Site-Local and Local Addressing

2003-08-14 Thread Margaret Wasserman
At 06:07 PM 8/5/2003 +0200, Brian E Carpenter wrote: That's an interesting expectation. As co-author of the planned deprecation draft, I'd been assuming a more classical deprecation action, in which we would simply state the previous semantics of FEC0::/10, state that the prefix SHOULD NOT be

What to do with FEC0? [was Re: Moving forward on Site-Local and Local Addressing

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Thomas
Brian E Carpenter writes: Zefram wrote: ... I'm expecting, by the way, that the deprecation will leave fec0::/10 to be treated as global-scope unicast addresses, rather than making fec0::/10 addresses cease to function altogether. That's an interesting expectation. As co-author

Re: What to do with FEC0? [was Re: Moving forward on Site-Local and Local Addressing

2003-08-14 Thread EricLKlein
From: Michael Thomas writes: If you truly want to deprecate FECO::/10, I'd say that it shouldn't be reserved to IANA, but given to registries with explicit mandate to allocate it immediately. This could cause problems with hardware that already is installed, and is configured to treat

Re: What to do with FEC0? [was Re: Moving forward on Site-Local and Local Addressing

2003-08-10 Thread Tim Chown
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:52:32PM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: No. That would admit the possibility of reusing that prefix for some other purpose. What we really need is for all hosts and routers to filter FEC0://10 packets unless explicitly configured to do otherwise. Actually while I agree

What to do with FEC0? [was Re: Moving forward on Site-Local and Local Addressing

2003-08-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Zefram wrote: ... I'm expecting, by the way, that the deprecation will leave fec0::/10 to be treated as global-scope unicast addresses, rather than making fec0::/10 addresses cease to function altogether. That's an interesting expectation. As co-author of the planned deprecation draft, I'd

RE: What to do with FEC0? [was Re: Moving forward on Site-Local and Local Addressing

2003-08-05 Thread Chirayu Patel
That's an interesting expectation. As co-author of the planned deprecation draft, I'd been assuming a more classical deprecation action, in which we would simply state the previous semantics of FEC0::/10, state that the prefix SHOULD NOT be used, but leave it permanently assigned by IANA.