[6bone] curious indirect effect of the 6bone registry

[Trent Lloyd]

perhaps an entry without a real email or something commenting "This is the 
reserved 6to4 address space for hosts to use their ipv4 as a blah balh 
bnlahkdqwdq"


At 12:48 PM 18/02/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>6bone Folk,
>
>For your info, and possible amusement, I have deleted the inet6num for 
>2002::/16 from the 6bone registry.
>
>It is becoming common for a less experienced person to have a problem with 
>their IPv6 connection of some kind, look at either their own source or 
>remote ipv6 address and see the "6to4" address, and not understand what it 
>is all about. Then they look in the 6bone registry for the entire /128 
>2002 address and (previously) found my courtesy entry for 2002::/16. From 
>there they send me email as they believe I own the 2002 space. Sometimes 
>it is even a complaint that I am causing them troubles :-)
>
>I think it is simpler to not list the 2002 prefix in the 6bone registry 
>(it was just for info anyway).
>
>
>Bob
>
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