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

[David Farmer <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> From: ipv6 [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of David Farmer
>
> > The actual distance between the positions here is rather small, I
> > believe we are basically standing nose to nose on different sides
> > of the same line, which is /64.
>
> Well .... sort of.
>
> > I think we all agree that /64 is the normal subnet size in most
> > situations, in other words the default, especially for subnets with
> > general purpose hosts,
>
> Except that the consequences of all that e-mail (my response to Lorenzo,
> echoed by Fred), would be that even a SLAAC, without a hard /64 boundary,
> would be very nice. A subject for another day.
>
> Home gateways assigned a /64, smartphone-provided mobile hotspots, I'm not
> sure such examples can be forever relegated to the category of corner cases?
>

Personally, I'd support doing that too.  But, that is a real change to a
bunch of code, and while I seed the need for doing it, it needs to be done
very carefully.  More importantly, I wouldn't want doing that to get in the
way of the more philosophical change(correction) proposed in this draft.

Thanks.

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