[83325] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Address Planning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy Badami)
Wed Aug 10 18:36:41 2005
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:34:01 +0100
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: David Conrad <david.conrad@nominum.com>,
Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <BE1D4C05-540F-4F6D-AA4A-CBED9A2939B0@muada.com>
From: Roy Badami <roy@gnomon.org.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Iljitsch> That's exactly the reason why the IETF has such a hard
Iljitsch> time moving forward: whatever way of abusing IP you can
Iljitsch> think of, someone is doing it today, and breaking that
Iljitsch> "feature" will gravely upset them. It's the age old
Iljitsch> battle between the irresistible force (progress) and the
Iljitsch> immovable object (users) I guess.
And on that vein perhaps it's prudent for people using network
prefixes longer than /64 to take care to ensure that the bit positions
in the IPv6 address that should correspond to the u and g bits in the
modified EUI-64 interface ID (according to RFC 3513) are both set to
zero.
-roy
