RE: A proposal for draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07

"Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@boeing.com> Fri, 03 March 2017 00:34 UTC

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From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@boeing.com>
To: David Farmer <farmer@umn.edu>, 6man WG <ipv6@ietf.org>
Subject: RE: A proposal for draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07
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From: ipv6 [mailto:ipv6-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of David Farmer

> 3. IIDs are REQUIRED to be 64 bits

I think that RFC 4291 bis should not retain a constraint that has been applied so far, out of convenience, in the earliest stages of IPv6 deployment. Somehow the idea of forced 64-bit IIDs has crept into the culture, even while it is being violated by some devices, routers primarily.

To be pragmatic about these things, given that OSs seem to break if IIDs of other lengths are attempted, my suggestion is to limit the damage to *current use* of the 2000::/3 unicast address space. Not to extend it to all of IPv6.

Bert