RE: IPv6: Past mistakes repeated?

[Peter Johansson]

At 07:22 AM 4/24/00 -0400, David A Higginbotham wrote:

>On another note, I have heard the argument that a unique identifier already
>exists in the form of a MAC address why not make further use of it?

Well, because it's too Ethernet-centric, for one thing! Other transport
media (suitable to transport IP) do not necessarily base their link-levevl
addressing on static schemes whose addresses are assigned at time of
manufacture.

Regards,

Peter Johansson

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