Re: Review of draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-06

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Fri, 13 January 2017 07:34 UTC

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>> we have had to fight massively with vendors to make it classless.
>> please do not give them excuses to break things.
> 
> On a lot of hardware /65 - /126 is not very well-supported.

guess the business reason why.  the classful spec gave them a good
excuse to do a tcam rinse repeat.  i pay to feed the darned  chickens,
it's time to break the egg.

randy