Hi, Mikael,

On 09/03/2011 08:17 a.m., Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>> I recommend that folks read the above draft.  I haven't seen the
>> I-D announcement get cross-posted to the IPv6 WG, perhaps due to
>> the volume of recent I-D postings, and the topic seems relevant.
> 
> I don't think it solves what it thinks it solves, but if this REALLY
> should be implemented, it's my initial thinking that the H flag should
> be a MUST demand to only have ONE and only one MAC-based IPv6 address
> according to EUI64. 

Not sure what you mean... If H is set, why should we prevent generation
of MAC-based addresses of different scopes?


> I would appreciate some reasoning in the draft why
> this was chosen as a SHOULD option.

Because a "SHOULD" allows the host to override this policy if it has
good reasons to do so.

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
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