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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Leo Bicknell wrote: > > In a message written on Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 11:51:10AM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > > Perhaps Nokia wants to make cellphones with a fixed IPv6 number - as it > > leaves the factory? -Hank > > It was relayed to me that at least one group was asking about using > IPv6 addresses to replace UPC codes, since they are running out of > UPC codes. I believe they were told that would be inappropriate. And I bet someone will then think of a good reason why each product would then need a /64. :-) -Hank > > However, if you can get addresses for free, and they are guaranteed > to be globally unique, and not to appear on the public internet I'm > not sure what the barrier to such an application would be.... > > -- > Leo Bicknell - [email protected] - CCIE 3440 > PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ > Read TMBG List - [email protected], www.tmbg.org >
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