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Re: [v6ops] draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis prohibiting non-/64 subnets

2017-02-24 13:57:07
Hi,

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 10:04:11AM -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote:
For enduser deployment picking 'something' (/64 is perfectly fine) is
totally sane, and already in the proposed text. The sticking point isn't so
much: "ipv6 is ipv4 with  more bits" (which the network treats it as) but:
"hey, we know we allocate longer prefixes all the time for 'reasons' on
things that have bespoke config, let's not make that harder by letting
vendors/etc take shortcuts... acknowledge the fact that we really do have
interfaces with >/64 deployed.

+1

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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