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Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank () mail iucc ac il>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 19:24:32 +0200 (IST)
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Leo Bicknell wrote:
In a message written on Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 11:51:10AM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote:Perhaps Nokia wants to make cellphones with a fixed IPv6 number - as it leaves the factory? -HankIt was relayed to me that at least one group was asking about using IPv6 addresses to replace UPC codes, since they are running out of UPC codes. I believe they were told that would be inappropriate.
And I bet someone will then think of a good reason why each product would then need a /64. :-) -Hank
However, if you can get addresses for free, and they are guaranteed to be globally unique, and not to appear on the public internet I'm not sure what the barrier to such an application would be.... -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell () ufp org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request () tmbg org, www.tmbg.org
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