A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group of the IETF. Title : Analysis of the 64-bit Boundary in IPv6 Addressing Authors : Brian Carpenter Tim Chown Fernando Gont Sheng Jiang Alexandru Petrescu Andrew Yourtchenko Filename : draft-ietf-6man-why64-02.txt Pages : 24 Date : 2014-08-15 Abstract: The IPv6 unicast addressing format includes a separation between the prefix used to route packets to a subnet and the interface identifier used to specify a given interface connected to that subnet. Currently the interface identifier is defined as 64 bits long for almost every case, leaving 64 bits for the subnet prefix. This document describes the advantages of this fixed boundary and analyses the issues that would be involved in treating it as a variable boundary. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-why64/ There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-why64-02 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-6man-why64-02 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt