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

Peter Hessler <phessler@theapt.org> Mon, 05 June 2017 07:23 UTC

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From: Peter Hessler <phessler@theapt.org>
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Subject: Re: draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00
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On 2017 Jun 05 (Mon) at 16:17:51 +0900 (+0900), Erik Kline wrote:
:Of course you can deploy a network that does whatever you want.  That alone
:does not imply standards action is required.

This draft is requesting that the standards reflect reality, and
acknolwedge that non-/64 subnets are legal.  This group has tried to
force the standards to require only /64 subnets and that is, quite
frankly, offensive.

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