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A comment on IAB Statement on IPv6. Parent comment

Re:IAB Statement on IPv6 by dastbe on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @11:29AM (#12911532)
ipv6 has a provision for locally routable addresses, because yes publicly routable addresses should be special. They should just also be free.
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Re:IAB Statement on IPv6 by fulafel on Thursday November 10, 2016 @01:38AM (#12918222)
Link-local addresses are not routable and are not meant for application use, they're just for low level things like neighbour discovery and router advertisements (analogous to IPv4 ARP/DHCP).

There's also ULA that can be used for non-internet connected networks and some other special scenarios, but it would be a bad idea (and against recommended practice) to use them to port your RFC1918 addressing to IPv6.

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