[6bone] semi-newbie Q on IPv6 address planning

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 10:39:40AM +0200, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:
> I chose a /126 (instead of a /127, even before reading Pekka's draft) 
> also because that's what a lot of network engineers are used to in 
> IPv4 (a /31) and it minimises human error (which is far more frequent 
> than a hardware failure).

Ummm.  I assume a typo here, but the equivalent of a /31 in IPv4 world
is a */127*, not a /126...

> And I wish protocol design wasn't a game of designing nice bit 
> templates and took operational practice into account as a starting 
> point.

Seconded.  EUI-64 sucks big time (using MAC addresses and such is a nice
idea, but why on earth can't they map 48 bits to 64 in a somewhat more
straightforward way than "distribute them over all the 64bits"?)

Gert Doering
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