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Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space


From: Stephen Sprunk <stephen () sprunk org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:30:02 -0500

On 18-Jul-12 22:57, Karl Auer wrote:
I don't understand the professed need for provable randomness.

I think his concern is that if an SP generates a ULA prefix for a
customer, and that prefix happens to collide with someone else's ULA
prefix, the SP may wish to prove that it was a true collision rather
than a result of the SP's laziness or incompetence.

However, that concern does /not/ apply to those interested in ULAs in
general.  For the very limited community it does apply to, use a
provable RNG instead of the one in RFC 4193.

S

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