BBC News - 'Fresh proposals' planned over cyber-monitoring

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Sun May 12 10:07:04 BST 2013


* Charles Lindsey:

> But I thought IPv6 did reserve a batch of numbers that would map into
> the IPv4 space (but not at the "bottom" of the IPv6 range).

There are at least three different reserved /96 prefixes for mapping
IPv4 addresses.  Except for the deprecated ::/96 prefix, these
mappings are incompatible with the IPv6 address architecture and its
requirements on the structure of global unicast addresses, so their
use on the IPv6 Internet is not permitted.



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