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

Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Thu, 23 February 2017 09:04 UTC

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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 18:03:35 +0900
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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 Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 5:47 PM, <sthaug@nethelp.no> wrote:

> 1000 /64 links for every /65-126 link may well be the case. However,
> plenty of non /64 links exist, and I see no sign of them going
> away. Claiming that all IIDs are 64 bit is simply incorrect, and
> doesn't reflect operational reality no matter how hard you try to
> make that claim.
>

I'm not saying that all IIDs are 64 bits. I'm saying that as a percentage
of the Internet, more code is deployed that expects/requires 64 bit IIDs
than links than non-/64 links. So if we want to make the standard reflect
reality, then we should keep it as is.