Sometime ago we discussed the allocation of an IPv6 prefix for the purposes of legacy applications using HIP (the ORCHID proposal). The key question in that discussion was whether a /8 allocation is justified for this type of an experiment. Since then we've had some off-line discussions with the folks who commented on this topic, to come up with alternatives to solve this issue. The proposal that seemed to be acceptable is to allocate a longer prefix (e.g. /28) as an IETF experimental allocation through IANA. The implication is that the public key hash would be truncated to 100 bits, presumably still within an acceptable range.
If you have an opinion about this matter, please send mail either here or on the HIP list before June 9th so that Julien can update his draft. Thanks, --Jari _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
