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Why /64 [was Re: Deprecating EUI-64 Based IPv6 Addresses (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-6man-deprecate-eui64-based-addresses-00.txt)]

Octavio Alvarez <alvarezp@alvarezp.ods.org> Sun, 27 October 2013 16:03 UTC

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Subject: Why /64 [was Re: Deprecating EUI-64 Based IPv6 Addresses (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-6man-deprecate-eui64-based-addresses-00.txt)]
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On 10/25/2013 12:30 PM, Tim Chown wrote:

>> Let's keep this thread on-topic. ;-)
> 
> Well, you're proposing deprecating EUI-64, so there is no longer any reason to be constrained to /64.... so your replacement should consider the possibility of it being used with longer subnet prefixes at some point in the future?

http://etherealmind.com/allocating-64-wasteful-ipv6-not/

It quotes RFC 5375.

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