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Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard

2017-02-13 17:42:02

On Feb 13, 2017, at 2:53 PM, Brian E Carpenter 
<brian(_dot_)e(_dot_)carpenter(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:

However, the Interface ID of unicast addresses used for
Stateless Address Autoconfiguration [RFC4862] is required
to be 64 bits long.

To my understanding, that is exactly the case with SLAAC. One could use the 
algorithm with any number one chose, but the chosen number is 64. Restricting 
the limitation to algorithms that require such a limitation makes sense to me. 
Extending it from there to algorithms that have no such limitation doesn't.

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