On 15/8/19 12:27, Roland Bless wrote: [....] > c) given the increasing number of virtual machines and IoT devices 64 > bit isn't sufficient, see also the discussion of new MAC address lengths [...] The MAC addresses should have never been embedded in the IID. In fact, that's no longer the recommended way to generate IPv6 IIDs. See RFC8064. Thanks, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: fgont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492