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Re: [homenet] homenet-prefix-assignment update - prefix length 64 and on prefix comparison

Alexandru Petrescu <alexandru.petrescu@gmail.com> Wed, 08 October 2014 14:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] homenet-prefix-assignment update - prefix length 64 and on prefix comparison
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Le 08/10/2014 15:14, Pierre Pfister a écrit :
[...]
> Why should we mandate homenet implementations to *break* in
> situations where they could work fine ? Why should we voluntarily
> prevent a link from being configured if we actually can configure it
> ?

Sorry, there is no intention to tell networks where 64 works that 64
must not work.

There is however an intention to not say 64, and just say 'n'.

Old:
> Although that choice is completely implementation specific, prefixes
> of size 64 are RECOMMENDED.

New:
 > Although that choice is completely implementation specific,
 > implementations MUST support prefixes of arbitrary length.

Alex

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