Iljitsch van Beijnum a écrit : > On 21 feb 2008, at 14:31, Rémi Després wrote: > >> - These addresses would, for example, have FF00::/8 at the beginning >> of their IID (no currently specified IPv6 IID begins that way; >> randomness on 58 bits is good enough). (Sorry for the typo. Should be 56.) > You're right, there is currently no way other than a rather non-obvious > use of manual address configuration or DHCPv6 address pool configuration > to arrive at an interface identifier where the U/L bit is "global" and > the group bit is set, i.e., with bits 6 and 7 of the IID set to 1. This > means that there is an untapped range of 62 bits worth of IIDs that we > can still give a new purpose where the address type can be relatively > unambiguously determined from the IID. It would be a shame to squander > that resource without thinking about other uses first. (Although using > only one of the 64 possible ranges of 56 bits is probably reasonalbe.) > > But shouldn't we be having this discussion in 6man? Yes, I think so. _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf