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

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Fri, 25 October 2013 17:40 UTC

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Subject: 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 01:54 PM, Alexandru Petrescu wrote:
> If we're again at deprecating things one aspect that I'd really like
> removed is this 64bit border for SLAAC over Ethernet.
> 
> One should be able to do SLAAC over Ethernet (and all its backward
> compatible IEEE links) with Interface Identifiers optionally  shorter
> than 64bit.

If there's something else that needs to be fixed, then please:

1) Write an I-D that analyzes the problem, and proposes a workaround, and,

2) start a new thread. :-)

Let's keep this thread on-topic. ;-)

Cheers,
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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
e-mail: fgont@si6networks.com
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