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Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Wed, 22 February 2017 20:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard
To: Job Snijders <job@ntt.net>, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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On 23/02/2017 03:41, Job Snijders wrote:
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> Why publish a document that conflicts with (almost) every deployed
> global IPv6 backbone? This would be a farce.

Job is correct, and I think the document editor can find one of the
various proposed formulations that avoids the farce.

Nobody is saying that /64 isn't extremely widely used where it's
appropriate to have a portable fixed length IID. Set the default
at 64 and trust operators to change it where they need to.
That's realistic.

     Brian

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