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Re: <draft-ietf-6man-default-iids> update to rfc2464bis

Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Fri, 13 January 2017 01:27 UTC

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From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 10:27:05 +0900
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Subject: Re: <draft-ietf-6man-default-iids> update to rfc2464bis
To: Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> wrote:

>    It is not recommended that Interface Identifiers for an Ethernet
>    interface be based on stable IEEE MAC-layer addresses.  Earlier
> versions of
>    this document described a method of forming interface identifiers
>    derived from stable IEEE MAC-layer addresses called Modified EUI-64
> format.
>    This is described in Appendix A of [I-D.ietf-6man-rfc4291bis] and is
>    no longer recommended.
>
> That is, add “stable”.
>

That works for me.


> Would it then make sense to be explicit to add a new sentence like:
>
>    This approach may be used to create Interface Identifiers based on
> non-stable (e.g.,
>    random) IEEE Mac-layer addresses.
>
> with a reference to the appropriate IEEE specification.
>

Yes, that's great.

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