What would happen today if a /64 showed up?  Why change that behavior?

On 11/8/12 10:09 AM, "Victor Kuarsingh" <[email protected]> wrote:

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>>>   even though this would destroy the benefits of subnetting.
>><RCC>I think it is arguable whether bridging is the least damaging
>>solution. It fundamentally does not work with route-over multi-link
>>subnets and would therefore require some extra L2 weirdness at a LLN
>>border router. If ISPs are going to hobble us with /64s then I think you
>>will find NPTv6 solutions appearing for the same reason NAT is used
>>today. There are alternatives but, as noted in the architecture draft,
>>these break SLAAC. So I think the onus is to push back on ISPs ofering
>>/64s if we want to avoid any kludges.</RCC>
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>Just to further some of the comments I made yesterday.  I understand the
>we don¹t want a /64 to show up, but this may occur for reasons other then
>the primary intention of the ISP.  Many things occur in a network - IP
>depletion/low avail blocks, errors, mis-configuration etc.  No matter why
>it occurs, ignoring this case is likely not a good idea.
>
>I agree with earlier comments that this can be considered as a failure
>mode.  It still needs to be considered for good engineering on how CPEs
>and homenet gear will behave.
>
>Regards,
>
>Victor Kuarsingh
>
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