weird RIP prefix: 5f00::/16

[Arlie Davis]

I'm new to the 6BONE and to real-world deployment of IP6, so please take
my question with a grain of salt.

I've noticed in a lot of the traffic discussing routes on this list,
that the length of the prefixes mentioned is quite small.  Is this
normal?  Is this a good thing?  If people are issued a /24 prefix under
IPv6, it allocates proportionally as much as allocating /24 in IP4
address space.

Is there something I don't understand, or are huge chunks of IP6 address
space being thrown about?

-- arlie

>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Alain Durand [SMTP:Alain.Durand@imag.fr]
>Sent:	Friday, January 24, 1997 1:34 PM
>To:	6bone@ISI.EDU
>Subject:	weird RIP prefix: 5f00::/16
>
>Hi
>
>I'm getting the prefix 5f00::/16 in a RIP announce.
>I do not understand this preffix. Is it a bug somewhere
>or do I miss something?
>
>Another question is: should a default route or a 5f00::/8 route
>be advertised by someone? If yes by who?
>
>I personnaly tend to think that such routes should not be advertised.
>
>opinions?
>
>	- Alain.