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Re: [v6ops] WGLC: draft-ietf-v6ops-unique-ipv6-prefix-per-host-02 - multiple prefixes per device

joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> Thu, 16 March 2017 09:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] WGLC: draft-ietf-v6ops-unique-ipv6-prefix-per-host-02 - multiple prefixes per device
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On 3/16/17 2:20 AM, Tim Chown wrote:
>> On 16 Mar 2017, at 08:26, Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 09:20:53AM +0100, Alexandre Petrescu wrote:
>>> Touchscreen and other WiFi, DSL and Cable Boxes of today rarely have
>>> only one network interface.
>> [..]
>>> This draft does neither.  It is called "unique prefix per Host"; 
>>
>> All the devices you've listed are not *Hosts*.
>>
>> This is not about "delegating a prefix to a device that works as an
>> intermediate router" but about *Hosts*.  If a host acts as a router,
>> it's not the target audience of this draft.
> 
> But the host might want to act as a router temporarily?

then it should probably do PD, otherwise it gets precisely one /64
subnet which might be enough but why constrain youself in that way.

joel

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