On Wednesday, Jul 16, 2003, at 21:14 Canada/Eastern, James Spooner wrote:
A point to consider here is that there _is no such thing_ as a 'private' IPV6 range in my understanding.
There are link-local addresses, which are somewhat similar in concept. There was a proposal to specify a site-local address format too, but that got shot down at the v6ops meeting in San Francisco earlier this year. If MetaNet provides a single-subnet, multi-access shared medium abstraction, then a link local addressing scheme might be good for something. Bill Manning once popularised a scheme for using link-local addressing at exchange points in order to avoid RIR policy, to the point of running code even, but it was not widely adopted for reasons that escape me. Joe