[6bone] Is minimum allocation /64 now?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:54:40PM +0100, Jørgen Hovland wrote:
> In some scenarios, we use /127 or /128 on p2p-links (the transport
> layer/protocol is irrelevant) because we do not want other third parties to
> communicate by grabbing an availible IP, or we do not want the other second
> party to be able to use more than 1 IP. This is a security concern we
> consider important. Does this mean that we have to use IP-filters in the
> future to setup p2p-links if the standard becomes /64 ?

The standard *is* /64 (the RFC says so).  Just to clarify.

But that's not my point.  It's more curiousity: why are you doing this,
that is, "restrict that line to a single IP address"?  I mean, the whole
point of v6 is "the amount of addresses available is HUGE".

Is this some sort of "customer must hook only a single device to your
service" product (which can be circumvented by application proxies,
of course)?

Gert Doering
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