At Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:56:43 +0100, Alexandru Petrescu <alexandru.petre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > An IPv6 address prefix used for stateless autoconfiguration [ACONF] > > of an Ethernet interface must have a length of 64 bits. > > I disagree with this. There's an implementation of SLAAC over Ethernet > whose prefix can be shorter than 64 and works ok. I suppose there's at > least another similar implementation. I don't understand the logic. Simply because there's an implementation that doesn't follow the standard cannot be a reason for changing the standard. If we really want to do that, there should be a clearer and stronger reason. The pros and cons on the fixed prefix length for stateless autoconfiguration had been discussed to death, and as far as I remember the attempt to change the fixed length has never convinced the community. I'm not necessarily objecting to another attempt by pointing it out, but I suspect we'll all just waste time by repeating the same discussion again (ending up no change). Out of curiosity, btw, what's the implementation that uses a shorter prefix (or more essentially in this context, a larger interface identifier), and for what does it use the larger IFID space? --- JINMEI, Tatuya Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
