[6bone] semi-newbie Q on IPv6 address planning
Gert Doering
gert@space.net
Mon, 5 Aug 2002 23:19:06 +0200
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 09:05:39PM +0200, Magnus Ahltorp wrote:
> > So? For those media types you need other rules anyway. No need to uglify
> > things for the most common multiaccess network type.
> >
> > A decent approach could have been "put control stuff in the first 16 bits,
> > map the MAC address 1:1 to the next 48 bits".
>
> EUI-64 happens to be an IEEE standard, and not something that the
> ipngwg has invented.
The existance of non-useful standards in other areas doesn't mean one
has to use them for everything else needing 64-bit identifiers.
Gert Doering
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