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Re: Why ULA: low collision chance (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses)


From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:43:02 -0700


On Oct 21, 2010, at 6:02 AM, William Herrin wrote:

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Ray Soucy <rps () maine edu> wrote:
That's assuming ULA would be the primary addressing scheme used.  If
that became the norm, I agree, the extra uniqueness would be
desirable, perhaps to the point that you should be asking an authority
for FC00::/8 space to be assigned.  But then why wouldn't you just ask
for a GUA at that point.

Because you might want space that doesn't route on the Internet so
that if your routes accidentally leak external folks still can't reach
you?

That is, at best, a false sense of security which is worse than no security.

Owen



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