On Oct 18, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Jari Arkko wrote:
> 2. Whether to allocate an EUI-64 from the IANA block and base the IID on 
> that, or to allocate just a reserved value per RFC 5453. Collisions are 
> extremely unlikely in either case. Personally, I'd prefer an EUI-64 based 
> approach though, because collisions based on random addresses are then ruled 
> out completely, and only manual or multiple MAG type collisions may occur. 
> That is a personal preference though. But we need to choose. Are we going 
> with the draft as is, or changing it to use EUI-64 allocation? I saw Suresh 
> support this approach, Sri had questions (were those answered and what was 
> your conclusion?), what about the rest of you?

I would prefer that we use an EUI-64-based approach, but my opinion is not 
strong enough to block the document for that reason, if others feel strongly 
that we should use a reserved value from some other space.

Margaret


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