RE: IPv6: Past mistakes repeated?

[Dick St.Peters]

> 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?

I can remember early TCP/IP implementations that used class A
addressing only, with the host portion of the Enet MAC address as the
host portion of the IP address - "because ARP is too hard" or
something like that.  I think the first Suns did this.

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