On 02/02/2013 10:45 AM, Ray Hunter wrote: > If another standards body built a link technology based on EUI64 > *format* identifiers, but with their own OUI administration, that should > never be a problem for IPv6, because RFC4291 only requires IID's to be > "unique within a subnet prefix." They are not required to be globally > unique across all link technologies. This is backed up by another quote > from RFC4291: "The details of forming interface identifiers are defined > in the appropriate "IPv6 over <link>" specification"
How could you possible ensure such uniqueness without coordination? (i.e., how can you ensure uniqueness if several non-cooperating organizations are generating OUIS with u=1?) Cheers, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: fg...@si6networks.com PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
