Schiro, Dan writes:
This is a dangerous prospect. The company I work for makes a networking
stack and our IPv6 implementation expects the lower 64 bits to be the unique
interface identifier.
Does anyone see how wasteful this is? What's the likelihood of having
2^64 unique interfaces in the world?
Now would be the time to change the spec if its going
to be done, otherwise it will already have market
penetration just like NAT.
I think that anyone with a choice should stay away from IPv6 for as long
as possible.
No matter how the spec is changed, it will still be a mess. It's pretty
obvious that nobody knows what he is doing.