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

james woodyatt <jhw@google.com> Thu, 16 February 2017 19:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard
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On Feb 16, 2017, at 00:45, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> If your statement is that we only have the 64 bit boundary because of
>>>> SLAAC I believe you are wrong.
>>> 
>>> cite, please.  what else actually needs it?
>> 
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7421
> 
> that excuses it.  cite where it is actually needed to do something
> useful other than slaac.

RFC 6282 compresses IPv6 headers over IEEE 802.15.4 in a way that depends on such networks always having 64-bit network prefix length.

--james woodyatt <jhw@google.com <mailto:jhw@google.com>>