Re: [Autoconf] new charter

"Teco Boot" <teco@inf-net.nl> Fri, 27 February 2009 11:04 UTC

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Hi Alex,

Let's try to be accurate:

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|Sorry... in the picture above the addresses are also /128.  It was an
|abbreviation for me to show only 2001:db8:1::1/64 assigned to Host1.
|The full notation should have been 2001:db8:1::/64 prefix and
|2001:db8:1::1/128.  Would the following picture satisfy the need for
|/128 addresses?:

When prefix::/64 is assigned to a host, it configures a /64 address and not
an /128 address.
Routers may generate a /128 prefix-address, and advertize this in the
routing domain.
Some mechanisms should make sure the /128 routing prefix is unique, if
required. It is not required if the prefix is meant as anycast address,
routers may use "duplicate prefixes" if this is useful. I think anycast is
out-of-scope for [Autoconf], but we should be careful when specifying "MUST"
for prefix uniqueness. We should use "SHOULD" instead.

Teco.