Re: Draft on Globally Unique IPv6 Local Unicast Addresses

2003-05-27 Thread Zefram
Bob Hinden wrote: >There is a clear tradeoff between a longer ID (to allow for better random >numbers or MAC addresses) and the size of the subnet field. > >Before revising the draft, I would prefer to hear from more people on these >tradeoffs. Although I was one of those that suggested a techni

Re: Draft on Globally Unique IPv6 Local Unicast Addresses

2003-05-27 Thread Brian Haberman
Bob Hinden wrote: Brian, At 04:22 AM 5/27/2003, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Now, as a pragmatist, I would probably settle for a pseudo-random and probably-unique /48, but not everybody will. I can just imagine a phone call in which I recommend to IBM's chief network architect to use address space th

Re: Draft on Globally Unique IPv6 Local Unicast Addresses

2003-05-27 Thread Bob Hinden
Brian, At 04:22 AM 5/27/2003, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Now, as a pragmatist, I would probably settle for a pseudo-random and probably-unique /48, but not everybody will. I can just imagine a phone call in which I recommend to IBM's chief network architect to use address space that *probably* nobod