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Re: IPv6 address assignment for strictly point-to-point links and Device Loopbacks

joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> Sat, 22 September 2012 00:28 UTC

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On 9/21/12 12:03 AM, Usman Latif wrote:
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> I suppose bodies like IETF all need to ensure that there are 
> definitive guidelines around addressing architectures so that future 
> implementations of procotol stacks and features donot overlap with 
> bits in the IPv6 address space that could potentially be used on p2p 
> inter-router links (i.e. there could be address assignments done based 
> on subnet prefixes longer than /64 on p2p links) and obviously if some 
> implementation in future uses the bits from that space, it would 
> become a big challenge for operators and their customers to re-address 
> their p2p inter-router links.
>
As an implementer you have to assume the existence of prefixes longer 
than /64 if not, loopback addresses which are /128s would not exist.

in point of fact regarding /127s we have.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6164

which is about as authoritative as anything gets.

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