From: Jim Fleming (jfleming_at_no.spam)
Date: Sun Nov 18 2001 - 02:19:08 PST
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lohdan" <ipv6-at-ihug.com.au>
To: "Jim Fleming" <jfleming-at-anet.com>; <ga-at-dnso.org>
Cc: <ngtrans-at-sunroof.eng.sun.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 3:52 AM
Subject: Re: (ngtrans) Why not let the marketplace decide ?
> At 03:39 AM 18/11/2001 -0600, Jim Fleming wrote:
> >From: "Tom Lohdan" <ipv6-at-ihug.com.au>
> > > Because it is yet again irrelevant to the transition stage. 3FFE is test
> > > space if would care to read the assignment of IPv6 address space. The
> > > 2002::/16 space has been assigned for the 6to4 scheme (RFC 3056)
> >
> >http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sdks/platform/tpipv6/start.asp
> >"If you have an IPv4 address that is part of the private address space
> >(10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, or 192.168.0.0/16) or the
> >Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) address space of 169.254.0.0/16
> >used by Windows 98 and Windows 2000, it is not globally
> >routable. Otherwise, it is probably a public IP address and is globally
> >routable."
>
> > It does not sound like you are connected to the global Internet,
> > with your 3FFE IPv6 "test space".
>
> As stated in RFC 3056 of the 3FFE address space, "It is not intended as a
> permanent solution"
>
> 3FFE space is not production space, it could be removed at any time without
> reason or cause. There are no guarantees of service for 3FFE space, what
> this has to do with NGTRANS, is yet again irrelevant.
>
> >As for the real Internet, the transition plan is to keep people
> >connected and to allow them to migrate using the 2002:[IPv4]:0000
> >hook that Microsoft added to Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
>
> Since when is Microsoft the Internet? irrelevant yet again to the
> transition stage as Microsoft have no production or beta application's for
> IPv6. They have an IPv6 stack, nothing more. Kinda like a car without an
> engine.
>
What is the IETF RFC that documents APIPA ?
"Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) address space of 169.254.0.0/16"
BTW...
It does not look like .AU made it in the Exclusive Root
How does one obtain IN-ADDR.AU ?
Jim Fleming
http://www.IN-ADDR.info
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