RE: draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00

"Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@boeing.com> Fri, 09 June 2017 19:48 UTC

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From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@boeing.com>
To: "otroan@employees.org" <otroan@employees.org>
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Subject: RE: draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00
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From: ipv6 [mailto:ipv6-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of otroan@employees.org

> Any credible opponent of the fixed 64 bit boundary must answer the issues
> laid out in RFC7421.

I agree with this comment. It would take some time to go through each example cited, but I don't think it's impossible to do. It would be more difficult to support IID longer than 64 bits, but shorter should be doable.

Bert