Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Thu, 23 February 2017 21:49 UTC

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Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> Actually it has been very educational for me - not in my understanding
> of how IPv6 works, but in showing how badly this particular aspect has been
> documented for the last 20 years. Mainly, we've had too many words in the
> addressing architecture. I expect the next version to have fewer words
> on this topic.

looking at it from a slightly different angle, we've had 20 years where
the protocol has achieved some degree of acceptance, so it may be a good
idea to consider the merits of aligning theory with practice.  The /64
interface limitation is a prime example of something that ought to be
revisited.

Nick