IAB and "private" numbering

Sun Nov 13 19:34:07 UTC 2005

In message <4377924E.109 at peter-dambier.de>, Peter Dambier writes:
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>Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
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>...
>> 
>> I don't believe there is a 'rfc1918' in v6 (yet), I agree that it doesn't
>> seem relevant, damaging perhaps though :)
>> 
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>Yes, there was rfc1918 in IPv6 right from the beginning:
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>Site local addresses "0xF80" dont leave a site. They can be routed within
>a site but they never get outside. Just like rfc1918 addresses do.
>

Yes, and site-local addresses have been removed from the spec, because 
of the many problems they cause.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb