Re: I-D Action: draft-mishra-6man-variable-slaac-01.txt

[Lorenzo Colitti <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 4:27 PM Gyan Mishra <[e-mail]> wrote:

> It's hard to see why this draft is needed anyway. All that is needed
>
>> is to remove the "64 bit" statement from the addressing architecture,
>> which the WG has consistently failed to reach consensus about.
>>
>
>     Gyan>  This topic has come up many times over the years in heated
> debate and this is another instance of that.  Agreed.  However, what makes
> this instance different is that we have a major problem to be solved with
> 4G  &  now as 5G is rolled out, segmentation is of utmost importance.  I
> think in the past we have not had a major problem to be solved and so this
> change being proposed did not gain traction,  but now as 5G becomes the
> "norm" as it will compete directly with broadband that customers will start
> using 5G in SOHO as well as other environments.   This is a major issue
> that has come up with the ramp up for 5G IPv6 only deployments.
>

There is already a solution to this: use DHCPv6 PD on 5G networks. It's
been supported since 3GPP release 10 several years ago.