Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

[Bill Manning <bmanning@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 6, 2004, at 10:31, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> Dan Lanciani wrote:
> > Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > |+    Advertising locally assigned ULA AAAA records in the global DNS 
> > is
> > |+    MUST NOT occur as they are not globally unique and will lead
> > |+    to unexpected connections.
> > I strongly object to making this a "MUST NOT," ...
>
>
> OK. Lot of shouting since this was sent but not much new text.
>
> How about
>
>     Locally assigned ULA AAAA records MUST NOT appear in the global 
> DNS,
>     since there is an extremely small probability that the 
> corresponding
>     addresses are not unique. Even though these addresses will be
>     unrouteable in the global Internet, their leakage via DNS is highly
>     undesirable. Such AAAA records MAY appear in local regions of the 
> DNS
>     corresponding to their region of routeability.

	keep your mitts off my zone files.
	and if the prefixes are routable -AT ALL- then i may chose to
	define my "local region" to be the Internet.

> (And I would put an equivalent SHOULD NOT on centrally assigned ULAs.)
>
>          Brian
>
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