Bob, Steve,

I think that the -06 document still does not address the comment I sent to 
the mailing list
right after London IETF.

>2. The current draft does longest prefix match on 128 bits.
>     In the case of a dual-rail network where each hosts has
>     2 interfaces
>
>     prefix P1/64
>     ------------------------------------------------------
>           | h1                  | h2               |h3
>     ------------------------------------------------------
>     prefix P2/64
>
>     In this case, the choice of network 1 or network 2 depend
>     on the actual MAC address of the hosts.
>     This is a situation that is very difficult to understand/debug
>     by network administrator.
>
>     I would like to suggest to do longest prefix match only on the 64 
> most significant bits.



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