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

Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> Fri, 13 January 2017 02:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: <draft-ietf-6man-default-iids> update to rfc2464bis
From: Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com>
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Lorenzo,

> On Jan 12, 2017, at 5:27 PM, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.

Good

>  
>> 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.

Good.

Do you have a reference to a document that defines random IEEE mac addresses?

Bob

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