On Saturday, 22 September 2012, Joel M Halpern wrote: > The argument on /64 as the longest prefix is not that it is > magically unnatural. Rather, it is that there are a number of > current and evolving protocols that depend upon that /64. > The obvious example is that SLAAC does not work if subnets > are longer than /64. > > The rules in this regard are written into approved RFCs. > If homenet wants to change that, it really needs to go to 6man > with a strong case. (for point-to-point inter-router links > this was recently relaxed. > > At the same time, andy operator who insists on giving homes > a /64 is being inappropriately restrictive. Homenet should > say that, rather than trying to change the IPv6 architecture. > > Yours, > Joel
+1 to all of the above. Please particularly note that SLAAC is especially likely to be deployed in home environments, much more likely than any other alternative (e.g. DHCPv6). Several widely deployed consumer electronic devices ONLY support IPv6 via SLAAC, and won't work with DHCPv6 (at present). So breaking SLAAC is VERY bad operationally in a home deployment at present, and for the foreseeable future. Yours, Ran Atkinson _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
