Re: Deprecating IPv6

[Randy Bush <[e-mail]>]

hi havard,

> a tangential remark related to the wording in the draft:

i would not call actually talking about the draft's wording to
tangential. :)

>>    The length of the Interface Identifier in Stateless Address
>>    Autoconfiguration [RFC4862] is a parameter; its length SHOULD be
>>    sufficient for effective randomization for privacy reasons.  For
>>    example, a /48 might be sufficient.
> 
> I think the "a /48 might be sufficient" part is not the best way
> to express it.  When you talk about a /48 in IPv6, that's usually
> interpreted to correspond to an address space which contains 2^16
> /64s.
> 
> Suggestions for other ways of expressing what I think is intended
> would be "For example, a 48 bit long suffix might be sufficient"
> or "For exmple, 48 bits of address space might be sufficient".

thanks for actually suggesting useful text.  beat us up if something
reasonable addressing this is in not the next version.

randy