Considering the current level of IPv6 deployment, we have got so many 
specs...
BTW,how to add some salt to make CGA randomized as provacy address? Since 
public key has 
to be kown to receiver.

> There is a part of me that wishes that we just deploy what we have. 
> There is another part that notices that between IEEE802, privacy 
> addresses, CGA, stable privacy addresses and probably a few more, we
> have built a nice mess and maybe we should clean it up. For example,
> we could decree that composing and IID from a MAC address is 
> obsolete, and we could unify CGA and other privacy addresses. Add 
> some salt can make the CGA addresses as randomized as the privacy 
> addresses; change the lifetime of the key and you get whatever 
> address lifetime is deemed appropriate. But then, the best part of 
> me observes that with the current level of IPv6 deployment, maybe we
> don't have an urgent need for more specs...
> 
> -- Christian Huitema
> 
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