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Rémi Després <remi.despres@free.fr> Wed, 16 March 2011 17:01 UTC

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Le 16 mars 2011 à 07:30, Christian Huitema a écrit :
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> In fact, rather than your draft proposing to not use privacy addresses, we should pursue the deprecation of using EUI-64 in addresses.

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> The worst part of your draft is that , if we published it, it would give the impression that for the IETF, EUI-64 addresses are more secure than privacy addresses. This is obviously false.

But they are more stable by default, a feature that can be useful where privacy isn't a must.

RD

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