Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Thu, 16 February 2017 20:31 UTC

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> What I think we need is to make it clear that there are real
> exceptions to 64, and it is therefore not acceptable to embed 64 in
> code.

close.  64 is the exception; so slaac can work.

hiding the steaming classful pile in cute places around the document
only gets folk more annoyed.

randy