[6bone] Is minimum allocation /64 now?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 01:41:31PM +0200, Jesper Skriver wrote:
> > Actually the routers seem to have that check.  I can't tell you off-hand
> > where this is documented/recommended, but it works.
[..]
> 
> Good - but does all IPv6 implementations have this check ? (which likely
> have a performance impact), it it wise to have a recommendation that
> assume this check exist ?

As the addressing architecture mandates /64s, I hope there is a RFC
somewhere that mandates this check :-)

And no, I have no idea whether all implementations get this right (I'm 
sure they don't...).   On the other hand, with a /126, you have also
one address that has the potential for looping...

Gert Doering
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