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Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Mon, 05 November 2012 16:18 UTC

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Subject: draft-chown-6man-tokenised-ipv6-identifiers-02
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Hi,

I forgot to ask for a 5 min slot for this in Atlanta.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-chown-6man-tokenised-ipv6-identifiers-02

The draft describes a way to simplify (a little!) server renumbering in SLAAC networks.  Rather than manually configuring a 128-bit address on servers, you configure the 64-bit interface identifier, and rely on the RA to learn the prefix.

There was an implementation for Solaris, and a patch for Linux many years ago,

Is there interest in promoting this idea further, and importantly any IPR preventing doing so?  Or is there reluctance from admins to rely on RAs to configure a full server IPv6 address?

Tim

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