RE: Feedback on draft-gont-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-01

Christian Huitema <huitema@microsoft.com> Sun, 15 April 2012 06:19 UTC

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From: Christian Huitema <huitema@microsoft.com>
To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>, Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>
Subject: RE: Feedback on draft-gont-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-01
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>> That said, a more general question would be: should we include the (numeric) interface index rather than e.g. a 
>> hardware-specific I-D?
>
> Hmmm. I would tend to think that's a small positive integer, which isn't all that unique. Are you thinking of something 
> different than I am?

If the only purpose is to make sure that two interfaces on the same host have different ID, then a small integer is sufficient.