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Re: [dhcwg] Next step(s) for draft-ietf-dhc-stable-privacy-addresses -> abandon work? / IA_NA applicability

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Wed, 15 April 2015 16:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] Next step(s) for draft-ietf-dhc-stable-privacy-addresses -> abandon work? / IA_NA applicability
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On 04/14/2015 10:51 PM, Ted Lemon wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2015, at 2:58 PM, Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> wrote:
>> Mine is this: the subnet address space is so large that the problem is
>> essentially a birthday paradox.
> 
> That assumes a random distribution.

Random addreses, uniform distribution. And F() provides that.

Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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