> The assumptions required to mount a plausible case where the bidding
> down scenario (as interesting a theoretical problem as it is) can
> actually apply in some way, and especially where allocating
> an address
> bit to help avoid id would work, are simply out of this world.
=> Just so I can understand your point, could you
say why. And I mean for the particular applications
we've been discussing (ND, MIPv6 ...etc)
> That said, of the two current proposals to define a bit to
> have special
> meaning in the IID part of an address, this one is much
> more rational
> than the other one - that is, to have a bit that says "this IID is
> unique". That one is even more absurd.
=> I agree that it doesn't make any sense to have
a bit in the iid that says it's globally unique.
Historically maybe it did, but right now it's
obviously useless.
Hesham
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