Le 23/02/2017 à 05:16, Lorenzo Colitti a écrit :
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Brian E Carpenter
<brian(_dot_)e(_dot_)carpenter(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com
<mailto:brian(_dot_)e(_dot_)carpenter(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>> wrote:
I'm sorry, I'm wondering which word in my recent message that said
"I'm not aware of any generally available running code that will
be changed in even one instruction by the final text - that is indeed
a requirement for advancement to Internet Standard."
is hard to understand.
Help he understand, then. There is widely-deployed code that assumes
that the interface ID is 64
There is also widely-deployed code that does not make an assumption of
IID length - it is DHCPv6 which works without any prefix length.
Alex
and does not work on anything other than 64
bit prefix lengths. Currently that code is correct on all unicast space.
If you change RFC 4291, won't that code be incorrect?