On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net> wrote:
<IPv6 newbie>
these addresses, their address scope is global, i.e. they are expected to be globally unique."
The ULA /48s are hoped to only be globally unique, but this only has a good chance of happening if all users pick good random numbers as required, which will often be 'hard to read'. should any two networks pick non-random numbers, they could easily conflict, breaking expectations. My suspicion is that in the future it is going to happen routinely, esp. if ULA becomes to IPv6 what RFC1918 space is to IPv4, with most end user networks implementing NAT66 to translate "private" /48 ULAs to their site's "public" /48 assignment from their ISP. I can imagine generic $50 IPv6 broadband routers getting distributed en-masse that hardcode all bits 0 ULA NAT66 by default, and expect the user to change the LAN IP subnet / NAT config from the defaults, sometime while they're setting it up, probably at the same time they change the admin password. You know... the type of router a residential user plugs in, and they "just work", and if the user forgets to follow any setup or config directions, just pulls an IP via DHCP and sticks with some insecure defaults. But it would still be a big improvement from what is available with V4. -- -Jh