[ipv6-wg] route6: 2A00::/12

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 01/11/2012 16:50, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> On 2012-11-01 17:36, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 05:00:31PM +0100, Antonio Prado wrote:
>>> On 11/1/12 4:44 PM, Mirjam Kuehne wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Just to confirm: The RIPE NCC is aware of this and has authorised MERIT
>>>> to use the address space for this purpose. You can find some more
>>>> details on RIPE Labs:
>>>>
>>>> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/ipv6-darknet-experiment
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> on Merit website has appeared a comprehensive page, with Letters of
>>> authority as well:
>>> http://software.merit.edu/darknetv6/
>> Notice that the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cjdns darknet uses the private
>> fc00::/8 subnet. Address collisions are possible, but astronomically
>> unlikely, as node addresses are randomly generated, and look e.g. like
>> fc1f:e5ad:e003:b6a3:d5dd:cdf1:30c1:5e06
> 
> As they just picked some random address space to use, they should not be
> complaining about collisions.
> 
> It is not listed here:
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-address-space/ipv6-address-space.xml
> 
> As such, their usage is wrong and nobody needs to account for it.

Actually, everybody should be filtering fc00::/7 anyway. So it seems
like a very poor choice for anything.

    Brian