Re: [6MAN] Re: Deprecating EUI-64 Based IPv6 Addresses

[Warren Kumari <[e-mail]>]

On Nov 30, 2013, at 6:58 PM, "Fred Baker (fred)" <[e-mail]> wrote:

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> On Nov 29, 2013, at 7:49 AM, "Pascal Thubert (pthubert)" <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
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>> I attended .1 meetings in Dallas the week after Vancouver and the fashion was more around:
>> 
>> - cannot bridge 64  bits address (but the reason is more for incompatible MAC expectation in 15.4 like latency than for address translation reasons)
>> - should go back to EUI 48 for everything (and the reason was that changing all the mibs that have 48 bits in them is a nightmare)
> 
> From my perspective, I really don't care how many bits any given technology uses. If they need a 92.5 bit address, they should use a 92.5 bit address. On the other hand, if they don't need a given address size, they should not concoct a reason to use it. The IETF should similarly use address sizes and structures that work will across a variety of lower layer technologies, and perform the unnatural act of tying itself to one of them, or appearing to. The value of a virtual address is that it maps to anything…

+ many lots…
W

> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Pascal
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ipv6 [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Alexandru Petrescu
>>> Sent: vendredi 29 novembre 2013 14:59
>>> To: Fred Baker (fred); Fernando Gont
>>> Cc: [e-mail]; <draft-gont-6man-deprecate-eui64-based-
>>> [e-mail]>
>>> Subject: Re: Deprecating EUI-64 Based IPv6 Addresses
>>> 
>>> sidenote about this intriguing bit...
>>> 
>>> Le 25/10/2013 07:16, Fred Baker (fred) a écrit :
>>> [...]
>>>> and note that the IEEE is now (I'm told) discussing 128 bit MAC
>>>> Addresses.
>>> 
>>> Found in draft-ieee-rac-oui-restructuring-00 section 4.4.2 'EUI-128 addresses'.
>>> 
>>> Alex
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