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Re: [v6ops] draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis prohibiting non-/64 subnets

Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Fri, 24 February 2017 19:56 UTC

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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 20:56:46 +0100
From: Gert Doering <gert@space.net>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [v6ops] draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis prohibiting non-/64 subnets
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Hi,

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 10:04:11AM -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> For enduser deployment picking 'something' (/64 is perfectly fine) is
> totally sane, and already in the proposed text. The sticking point isn't so
> much: "ipv6 is ipv4 with  more bits" (which the network treats it as) but:
> "hey, we know we allocate longer prefixes all the time for 'reasons' on
> things that have bespoke config, let's not make that harder by letting
> vendors/etc take shortcuts... acknowledge the fact that we really do have
> interfaces with >/64 deployed.

+1

Gert Doering
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