Status of the "u" bit for privacy extensions

Florent Fourcot <florent.fourcot@enst-bretagne.fr> Sun, 16 February 2014 20:33 UTC

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Hello,

the RFC 7136 has removed/clarify the significance of bits in interface
identifier for future iids generation, but it does not include any
reference to some current iids generation.

For example, the RFC 4941 asks to set the bit 6 to zero:
http://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc4941#section-3.2.1

Should current implementations following this rule be updated? What is
the current rule for this?

Regards,

-- 
Florent.