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Re: IID length text [was Re: Review of draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-06]

Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf@gmail.com> Tue, 17 January 2017 20:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: IID length text [was Re: Review of draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-06]
From: Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf@gmail.com>
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On Jan 16, 2017, at 9:35 PM, David Farmer <farmer@umn.edu> wrote:
> What breaks if all IIDs in global unicast are not 64 bits?  Especially other than SLACC?

To my knowledge, the only device that cares about the length of the IID is the device that inspects it, uses it, or supplies it. That would be, in most cases, functionality on the actual host and (perhaps) the router in front of it. There are additional services such as 802.1X or DHCP. Each of those cares about a 128 bit address, not an IID. Everything that doesn't care about a 128 bit address per se cares about a prefix, and the prefix [RFC7608] may have any length from 0 to 128 bits.

The one thing I can think of that cares about an IID separately from an address is SLAAC.

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