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

[gert@space.net (Gert Doering)]

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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