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Re: IID length text [was Re: Review of draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-06]

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Subject: Re: IID length text [was Re: Review of draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-06]
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> What breaks if all IIDs in global unicast are not 64 bits?  Especially other than SLACC?  I would hope such a REQUIREMENT has a better motivation that "we said so".  Citing the "rest of the specifications" was simply my shorthand for I don't see what else breaks.

RFC7421, section 4.2.

There's also a set of political considerations, where one tries to achieve balance between the provider's desire to have effective aggregation and the end-users desire to have enough address space. We specifically want to avoid provider's charging by the address.

O.

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