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Re: Deprecating EUI-64 Based IPv6 Addresses (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-6man-deprecate-eui64-based-addresses-00.txt)

Octavio Alvarez <alvarezp@alvarezp.ods.org> Sun, 27 October 2013 15:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: Deprecating EUI-64 Based IPv6 Addresses (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-6man-deprecate-eui64-based-addresses-00.txt)
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On 10/26/2013 02:40 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On 25 Oct 2013, at 19:09, Sander Steffann <sander@steffann.nl> wrote:
> 
>> make the specs a bit more flexible
> 
> Flexibility is overrated.
> 
> If you make it easier for a site to live with a /64 by making it easier to split that into /80 networks, the next thing you’ll notice that sites start to be allocated /80s.

... and proposals to allow up to /64s in the global routing table.

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