[6bone] pTLA request by NECTEC-TH - review closes 10 March 2003

[Philip Smith]

At 17:58 26/02/2003 -0800, Bill Manning wrote:
>         one reason is that is is much easier to delineate experimental
>         activities from things that may be more persistant.

I'm curious to know what feature of 3ffe::/16 space makes it suitable for 
experiments and makes 2001::/16 not suitable for experiments. Both are 
globally routable, aren't they? Or are we thinking of disconnecting the 
IPv6 experimental testbed (the 6bone) from the part of the IPv6 Internet 
which is using 2001::/16 space? Can't folks just use filters if they don't 
want the experimental bits to leak out into the rest of the net?

:-)

philip
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>% I'm generally curious why organisations which are members of the various
>% RIRs are still coming to request 6BONE address space. Global IPv6 address
>% space is global IPv6 address space, whether it comes from the 6bone, or in
>% this case, from APNIC, so I'm wondering why NECTEC feel that it is
>% necessary to comply with the 6bone rules rather than simply requesting
>% their IPv6 address block from APNIC under their existing APNIC membership.
>% Both address spaces will work on a testbed, the benefit of the RIR space
>% being that it is real, not experimental, and is unlikely to be withdrawn
>% when the 6bone experiment finishes in the future.