Re: About address allocating (IPv6, variable length SLA/prefixes?)

[Brian E Carpenter <]

Steve Deering wrote:
> 
> At 10:06 AM -0500 5/22/00, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> >Yes, but there are other problems if you subnet to the right of /64
> >(autoconfiguration for example).
> 
> It depends on the address format.  Not all format prefixes require the
> 64-bit interface ID field.
> 
> Agreed that, in the global aggregatable format, subnet prefixes longer
> than /64 create problems.
> 
> However, implementations should be kept unaware of the magic /64 boundary,
> as much as possible.  (Obviously, the piece of code that does stateless
> autoconfig has to know about it, but certainly not any routing code.)

I didn't mean to imply otherwise.

  Brian