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Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too


From: George Metz <george.metz () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 19:54:25 -0500

I think he's referring to all the Unicast IPv6 outside of 2000::/3 getting
designated as "reserved", and therefore no gear will ever successfully
route it... just like happened with the Class E space.

You'd think we would know better than to let that happen, but there's a lot
of things you'd think we would know better than to let happen, and yet it
still happens, with dreary regularity.

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 7:14 PM, <valdis.kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:

On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 18:15:44 -0500, Joe Maimon said:

There is plenty more to wonder about, for example, will the rest of the
unicast space get Class E'd?

That's a non-starter, as pretty much all the gear out there has code that
says
'Class E is reserved" (including gear that's *already* doing production
IPv6).  If
you're going to upgrade everything *anyhow*, deploying IPv6 has better
bang for
the buck than Class E support.



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