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Re: Fwd: 41/8 announcement

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Tue May 30 12:04:28 2006 
On Tue, 30 May 2006 15:39:31 -0000, Peter Corlett said:
> I can sort of see the point in ULAs, although if you want a globally unique
> address, why not just use a public address?

Maybe you don't *want* a public address. In fact, I *know* sometimes you
don't want one - because you *tell* us you don't:

> I tend to pick out random /24s from 172.16/12 when I need private addresses.
> Virtually nobody uses those, which makes them most suitable.

Sounds to me like you've just re-invented the ULA for IPv4.  This same
usage case (plus the collision issue you mentioned) are *exactly* why ULA's
were pushed...

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