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Re: IPv6 address assignment for strictly point-to-point links and Device Loopbacks

SM <sm@resistor.net> Thu, 27 September 2012 00:26 UTC

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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:22:38 -0700
To: Usman Latif <osmankh@yahoo.com>
From: SM <sm@resistor.net>
Subject: Re: IPv6 address assignment for strictly point-to-point links and Device Loopbacks
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Hi Usman,
At 17:08 26-09-2012, Usman Latif wrote:
>There is clearly two set of recommendations over the same addressing 
>scenario which I am only trying to clarify with the IETF community.
>RFC 6164 has recommendations that do not encompass all the 
>recommendations that were put forward in RFC 5375
>
>So although when RFC 6547 moved the RFC 3627 to historical status, 
>it completely ignored that RFC 5375 has additional recommendations 
>for the same /127 and /128 addressing scenarios.
>
>What I am now trying to clarify is - should we consider 
>recommendations in RFC 5375 (section B.2) as obsolete ?

See http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/v6ops/current/msg13685.html

Regards,
-sm

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