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, 15 February 2017 01:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard
To: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>, Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org>
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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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On 15/02/2017 14:26, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:06 AM, <otroan@employees.org> wrote:
> 
>> Brian, changing the 64 bit boundary is such a big change that I would
>> claim it is far outside the scope of advancing 4291 to Internet standard.
>>
> 
> Agreed.

Of course. The point is only that it's a parameter in the design of SLAAC,
whose value is set by the address architecture.

   Brian