Talk:IPv6/Archives/2016
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Dates in "Working-group proposals"
I'm not sure the dates used in the IPv6#Working-group proposals section are properly supported. RFC 1550 calling for proposals was issued in December 1993, but ref#9 ("History of the IPng effort" - dead link, but available on the Internet Archive, supports the days in the article, but is unfortunately more of a blog post). Certainly a lot of this was happening in the 1992-94 time frame, but has anyone seen any better sources for the histories? Rwessel (talk) 20:22, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
Recent changes by 109.133.36.155
I reverted the recent changes as I think it would be worth discussing them here first. There are a few cosmetic difficulties ("wildely"" is not a word!) but the main suggestion seems to be that the absence of a way to send packets from an IPv4-only host to an IPv6-only host has not been a hindrance to migration. One of the edit comments was " Interopability is not a problem. Most computers are dual stacked and get both an IPv4 and IPv6 address". I don't think most (>50%) computers have a routable IPv6 address, so this limits migration. Feel free to revert back my revert, or to discuss the changes here first. Ttwaring (talk) 15:01, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
Comment by User:Eyreland
This table needs to be updated and put in the same location as it is on the IP4 page, to keep the two pages consistent with each other. Removing it pure sabotage -- no more no less. Access to the reserved IP6 addresses needs is as vital as the IP4 ones.
Special-use addresses
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) have restricted from general use various reserved IP addresses for special purposes. Some are used for maintenance of routing tables, for multicast traffic, operation under failure modes, or to provide addressing space for public, unrestricted uses on private networks.
| Range | Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 0.0.0.0/8 | Current network (only valid as source address) | RFC 6890 |
| 10.0.0.0/8 | Private network | RFC 1918 |
| 100.64.0.0/10 | Shared Address Space | RFC 6598 |
| 127.0.0.0/8 | Loopback | RFC 6890 |
| 169.254.0.0/16 | Link-local | RFC 3927 |
| 172.16.0.0/12 | Private network | RFC 1918 |
| 192.0.0.0/24 | IETF Protocol Assignments | RFC 6890 |
| 192.0.2.0/24 | TEST-NET-1, documentation and examples | RFC 5737 |
| 192.88.99.0/24 | IPv6 to IPv4 relay | RFC 3068 |