[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #867: use ipv6

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 04:16:42PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> writes:
> 
> > Please do not forget http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cjdns and related, which
> >
> > cjdns addresses are the first 16 bytes (128 bits) of the SHA-512 of
> > the public key. All addresses must begin with the byte 0xFC, which in
> > IPv6 resolution, is a private address (so there is no collision with
> > any external Internet addresses).
> 
> I'm not really clear on the cjdns situation, but simply not excluding
> them (since most nodes don't have them anyway) seems good enough.  So if
> the rule is only to drop fe80:: addresses, and 0xfc::/8 addresses are
> included, that's ok with you?

That seems like a good idea to me. Any downsides to Tahoe?