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

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Thu, 09 October 2014 19:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] homenet-prefix-assignment update - prefix length 64 and on prefix comparison
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On 09/10/2014 22:29, Alexandru Petrescu wrote:
> Thanks for updating.
> 
> Le 09/10/2014 11:26, Pierre Pfister a écrit :
>> Hello,
>>
>> I’m proposing this change then.
>>
>> 1. In case the provided prefix is 64, the default consist in assigning
>> prefixes of length 64 first.
>> 2. I’m adding a reference to 6man-why64.
>>
>> When the algorithm decides to make a new assignment, it first needs
>>     to specify the desired size of the assigned prefix.  Although this
>>     algorithm intends to remain generic, it was observed in
>>     [I-D.ietf-6man-why64] that hosts may malfunction when the prefix
>>     length is not 64.  Therefore, prefixes of length 64 are RECOMMENDED.
> 
> With this text above, operators will be encouraged to read and give /64
> to end user sites.

Huh? This text is discussing internal subnets inside the homenet; it
has nothing to do with the ISP allocation, which is discussed in the
homenet architecture (and RFC 6177).

    Brian

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