[6bone] return of 3FFE IPv6 address block per RFC 3701

[Robert Fink]

Kevin,



On 6/12/06, Kevin Loch <kloch at hotnic.net> wrote:
> Robert Fink wrote:
> > Dear IANA,
> >
> > Per RFC 3701, "6bone (IPv6 Testing Address Allocation) Phaseout", the
> > 6bone IPv6 Testbed network has been phased out as of the 6th of June
> > 2006.
> >
> > Therefore, also per RFC 3701, the 3FFE::/16 prefix allocated by RFC
> > 2471 for IPv6 testing, can now be reclaimed by the IANA.
> >
> > To the best of my knowledge, 6bone operators are making active efforts
> > to stop further usage of the 3FFE prefix, and to filter where relevant
> > and necessary. Let us hope they are successful.
>
> Robert,
>
> Thank you for following through on winding this up after many years of
> operation.  I don't know if you are still associated with ESnet,
> but they are still announcing 3ffe:700::/24.  Can you or anyone
> you know there fix that?
>
> All of the paths visible from sixxs are going through 2713, if that
> helps.

I'll get in touch with the ESnet folk and get them to take it down.


Thanks,

Bob