AW: Review of draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-06

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Von: Randy Bush
Gesendet: Freitag, 13. Januar 2017 01:51
An: Brian E Carpenter
Cc: IPv6 List; int-dir@xxxxxxxx; Bob Hinden; draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis.all@xxxxxxxx; IETF
Betreff: Re: Review of draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-06

> RFC7421 (which is Informational) calls out RFC 6164 (not 6141!) as an exception.
> To be precise it says:
> 
> The de facto length of almost all IPv6 interface identifiers is
> therefore 64 bits. The only documented exception is in [RFC6164],
> which standardizes 127-bit prefixes for point-to-point links between
> routers, among other things, to avoid a loop condition known as the
> ping-pong problem.
> 
> I would suggest adding a similar exception statement in 4291bis.

 just get rid of classful addressing. we went through this
in the '90s.

‎I can only support this, while /127 is a good exception for ptp links, it's still useless for small nets with 4-5 IPs like a network between routers and a Firewall cluster.





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