I second the idea of an IANA registry for that. This would be very useful and would provide be the easiest way to update that list later.
- Alain. > -----Original Message----- > From: Suresh Krishnan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 1:43 AM > To: ipv6@ietf.org > Subject: Reserved interface identifier registry > > Hi Folks, > Some RFCs (I know of at least 2, RFC2526 and RFC4214) > reserve a set of interface identifiers on all prefixes. These > identifiers need to be excluded when a node autoconfigures an > address. This problem occurs with privacy addresses but is > equally applicable to other address assigment methods like > dhcpv6, cga etc. As Bernie suggested in a mail it would be > good to maintain a list of such identifiers. This is possible > by either listing the currently assigned IIDs in a document, > or by creating an IANA registry. The former is useful if > there will be no such allocations in the future and the later > is useful if there will be future allocations. I have written > a draft regarding this and I was wondering if the wg > considers this to be useful work worth pursuing. I would also > like to know if there are any other RFCs/drafts which depend > on using specific IIDs. > > Thanks > Suresh > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > ipv6@ietf.org > Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
