The Need for Globally Unique Local Addresses
The example in Figure 26-15 shows an easy-to-remember prefix of FD00:1:1::/48. Clearly, I made up the easy-to-remember global ID in this example. What global ID would you choose for your company? Would you pick a number that you could not abbreviate, and make it shorter? If you had to pick the IPv6 prefix for you unique local addresses from the options in the following list, which would you pick for your company?
FDE9:81BE:A059::/48
FDF0:E1D2:C3B4::/48
FD00:1:1::/48
Given freedom to choose, most people ...
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