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

"Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@boeing.com> Sun, 11 June 2017 23:23 UTC

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From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@boeing.com>
To: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
CC: 6man WG <ipv6@ietf.org>
Subject: RE: draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com] 

>> I think you missed my point. When the host forms either a ULA or a
>> LLA, the host must do so with no knowledge of anything external to
>> itself.
>
> Absolutely not, for a ULA. A ULA is simply a global scope address
> which happens to lie under a ULA prefix, which is today just another
> /64 that comes from a completely standard PIO.

You're right. I thought of that too late. Should not have used ULAs as examples of addresses that have to be formed independently by a host.

Bert