3ffe:: - the demise thereof

[Kevin Loch]

bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
>       I received
> 	my prefix in 3ffe:: space from the IANA.  Why the IESG/IAB 
> 	thinks it has the right to revolk that delegation is beyond me.

They don't but the IANA does and this is what they have to say
about it:

http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-unicast-address-assignments

3FFE:0000::/16        6BONE          01 Dec 98   [5]

[5]  3FFE::/16 is an experimental allocation to the 6BONE [RFC2471].
      This prefix will be returned to the unassigned address pool on
      the 6th June 2006 [RFC3701].

If that's not what they plan to do then the document should be
updated to reflect that (it should also be updated to reflect
the direct 3ffe::/24 delegation).

Maybe 6bone will return 3ffe::/16 but IANA will leave 3ffe::/24
delegated. Whatever they do, addresses that are returned to the
unallocated pool are bogons right?

- Kevin