Re: (sipp) comment on draft-ietf-sipp-routing-addr-02

hinden@eng.sun.com Fri, 29 July 1994 02:00 UTC

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Matt,

I think you are correct. IEEE MAC addresses are one example Node ID's.
Other types of Node ID's are also OK.  I will try to make that clearer in
the next version of document.

Bob

At  1:27 PM 7/28/94 -0500, Matt Crawford wrote:
>I would like to see the use of 48 bit node-ids de-emphasized,
>perhaps simply by dilution with another example or two.  I
>don't want anyone to get and disseminate the mistaken notion
>that IP6 "requires" or "specifies" use of an IEEE MAC address
>in the low 6 bytes.


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