RE: Stupid ULA discussion

["Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi at boeing.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suresh Krishnan [mailto:suresh.krishnan at ericsson.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 5:05 PM
> To: Brian Dickson; Iljitsch van Beijnum
> Cc: IETF IPv6 Mailing List
> Subject: RE: Stupid ULA discussion
> 
> Hi Brian,
> 
> > And to point out the existence of a suitable replacement for IPv4's 
> > 10.0.0.0/8 et al, if they want a non-registered, non-unique, truly 
> > non-routable address space that maps well to their current  
> RFC 1918 space.
> 
> > And that would be the IPv4-mapped IPv6 address space for RFC 1918.
> > I.e. ::ffff:10.0.0.0, ::ffff:172.16.0.0 and 
> ::ffff:192.168.0.0 (as /104, 
> > /108, and /112 respectively.)
> 
> Please do not suggest anything remotely close to this. The v4 
> mapped v6 address 
> space is for API compatibility purposes only (i.e. use AF_INET6 with 
> v4 addresses). These addresses should never ever appear on the wire.

Aww shucks. And I had been holding that concept in my back of
last-resort tricks.

Bert

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