ULA [was: ipv6-ops Digest, Vol 159, Issue 1]

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 25-Oct-19 01:07, Fernando Gont wrote:
> On 23/10/19 14:53, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>> On 24-Oct-19 03:57, David Forrest wrote:
>>> My ULA is a /48 while Charter Spectrum only gives me a /64.  Then I lose my network info.
>>
>> Huh? You will simply use a /64 within the ULA /48. However, you should only generate the ULA prefix once and store it in stable storage; that should be a feature of your CE. Then you never change the ULA prefix.
> 
> "MAY be a feature..." ;-) many (most?) will not even know about ULAs.  :-(

Right; one reason I'm hapy that my ISP (in NZ) sent me a FritzBox.

I'd be happier still if https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7084
made ULA support a MUST instead of a SHOULD.

   Brian