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

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Wed, 15 February 2017 08:56 UTC

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> In my opinion the sentence should be restricted to cases where it's
> required to be 64 bit (SLAAC) and allow everything else.

thank you.

this classful bleep should have been gone a decade ago.  i can see
slaac, but for the rest, pfui.  enough already.

randy