Re: draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00

otroan@employees.org Fri, 09 June 2017 07:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 09:46:56 +0200
In-Reply-To: <4021a559-5b6d-b3fb-19cd-afbe9041e8f2@gmail.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>, 6man WG <ipv6@ietf.org>
To: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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> On 6 Jun 2017, at 00:25, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 05/06/2017 19:45, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 8:05 AM, Brian E Carpenter <
>> brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> None of that is the point. The point is to establish
>>> that routing is classless
>> 
>> 
>> Routing is already classless because BCP 198.
>> 
>> 
>>> and /64 is a parameter of specific addressing schemes.
>>> 
>> 
>> It *is* a parameter. The parameter's value is 64 for all unicast addresses
>> except those starting with 000.
> 
> The parameter's *current* value, yes. But should we really be fixing
> the value of the parameter once and for all in the addressing architecture?
> Why don't we fix it in each IPv6-over-foo, which is what the SLAAC design
> assumes?

do we have a rationale for fixing the value in the IPv6-over-foo documents (anymore)?

Cheers,
Ole