Joe Abley writes:
> > One issue I have is with the first paragraph of the Introduction:
> >> Many sites connected to the Internet make use of IPv4 addresses that
> >> are not globally unique.  Examples are the addresses designated in
> >> [RFC1918] for private use within individual sites.
> >
> > This makes it sound like the only use cases are for IPv4 addresses, which is
> not correct.  The DNS is also used at times for multicast addresses, including
> locally scoped ones, and such "private use" multicast addresses occur both in
> IPv4 and IPv6.
> >
> > I have no data on whether anyone is _currently_ using AS112 for such,
> > but the point is that potential applicability is not limited to IPv4 as 
> > implied.
> 
> That text was cut-and-pasted from 6304, I think, which concerns itself just
> with the original AS112 service that only considered IPv4 reverse domains. I
> agree it could be usefully changed.
> 
> How about we just drop "IPv4" and make it "... make use of addresses that"

Yes, that would address my concern.

Thanks Joe,
-Dave

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