dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers

Leo Vegoda leo.vegoda at icann.org
Tue Aug 2 15:37:50 UTC 2011


You wrote:

> One point I often miss in the endless discussions wrt dynamic/static
> IPv6 with references to the dynamic IPv4 world, is the lack of RFC1918
> addressing for IPv6.  The fact is that all residential users are used
> to, and depend on, static IPv4 addressing within their own network.
> They assign e.g. 192.168.5.5 to their printer and 192.168.5.6 to their
> NAS, and trust that those addresses are static.

They can do this with a ULA prefix if they want (RFC 4193). It is both private and most likely (really, very, very likely) unique. This assumes they only want their printer or NAS to be accessible on their own local network.

Regards,

Leo


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