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Re: [homenet] I-D.ietf-homenet-prefix-assignment

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Wed, 08 October 2014 00:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] I-D.ietf-homenet-prefix-assignment
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On 08/10/2014 12:14, James Woodyatt wrote:

(quoting draft-ietf-homenet-prefix-assignment-00)

>    prefix.  If no ULA prefix can be found in stable storage, it MUST be
>    randomly generated, or generated from hardware specific values.

That sentence is not OK. It should be:

If no ULA prefix can be found in stable storage, it MUST be generated
as specified in [RFC4193].

> The requirements keywords in this section make for a pretty serious interop
> clash with Thread networks <http://threadgroup.org/>, which generate their
> own ULA prefix based on a method defined by its current conventions.

I sincerely hope that method conforms to RFC4193.

    Brian

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