Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt

sthaug@nethelp.no Wed, 01 March 2017 10:04 UTC

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> Ah, I see the disconnect here: you're talking about the addressing
> architecture, and I'm talking about unicast addresses assigned to actual
> networks. Those addresses are called "all global unicast addresses except
> the ones that start with binary 000" in 3513 and 4291, and "aggregatable
> global unicast addresses" (specifically, 2000::/3) in 2373.
> 
> What I'm saying is that for that latter type of address, the IID length has
> always been fixed to 64, and should continue to be.

Which, as pointed out repeatedly in this discussion, means ignoring
the real world cases of non 64 bit IIDs. Thus I completely disagree
with the "should continue to be".

Steinar Haug, AS2116