Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Address

> > Objecting to it, calling it "classful", is implying that it is
> > exactly the same as IPv4 classful addressing. I don't think IPv6 is.
> Perhaps not precisely the same, because there are no 'IPv6 classes'.
>
> But, an IPv4 Class C is quite the same as an IPv6 prefix/64.  The limit
> is 24bit in IPv4, and 64bit in IPv6.  True, the forwarding in IPv6 is on
> bit-boundary where classful IPv4 is on byte-boundary, yet an otherwise
> bit-boundary IPv6 _>/64_ route can not reach computers relying on
> SLAAC/Ethernet /64.
>
> That makes it a limit, which in turn generates what appears to be an
> 'IPv6 class' - the leftmost 64bits.
Having a single class does not make it classful.

If you want the 64-bit boundary changed. This is not the right context for it.
Write a draft. Justify why 64-bits of prefix isn't enough for you.

Ole

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