Steven Bellovin wrote: >> Thus, IPv6 was mortally wounded from the beginning. > > The history is vastly more complex than that. However, this particular decision > was just about the last one the IPng directorate made before reporting back to > the IETF -- virtually everything else in the basic IPv6 design had already > been agreed-to. I understand that, unlike 64 bit, 128 bit enables MAC based SLAAC with full of states, which is as fatal as addresses with 32 hexadecimal characters. > I don't think this was "the" wrong decision. Isn't it obvious that, with a lot more than 1% penetration of the Internet to the world today, we don't need address length much more than 32 bits? Masataka Ohta _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf