Real world use for the U/L bit?

George Bonser gbonser at seven.com
Mon Nov 15 02:17:35 CET 2010



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 4:10 PM
> To: George Bonser
> Cc: Roger Wiklund; ipv6-ops at lists.cluenet.de
> Subject: Re: Real world use for the U/L bit?
> 
> George,
> 
> The u/l bit is quite orthogonal to ULA prefixes.

Yes, my apologies, I was for some reason thinking it was having to do with the reserved bit in the local prefixes. The half that isn't currently used and some have suggested it be used for a "global private" address space.




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