I don't agree that we need to organize the space, but if everyone insists on going down this rat-hole then at least use the IANA allocated OUI 00-00-5E like ISATAP is doing. This will avoid the collision problems, plus make it clear who does the allocation and tracking if it wasn't already.
Tony > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Francis Dupont > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 10:40 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: well-known Interface IDs > > > In your previous mail you wrote: > > draft-ietf-malloc-ipv6-guide-04 Section 4.2 describes this for > IPv6 multicast. The same thing could be done for anycast and/or > unicast. > > => this is exactly what I'd like to get with a little difference: > IMHO we should not reserve space (other than all zeros) and rely > on probability to avoid collisions with RFC 3041 (an alternative is > to set the group/7th bit for private/temporary addresses but > this seems > to be overkilling because the issue already exists with manual IIDs). > I believe something like this should be fine: > - :: reserved for router subnet anycast > - ::1-::FFFF free for manual & lazzy numbering > - ::1:1-::1:FFFF for well known services (DNS discovery, etc) > - ::2:1-::2:FFFF for local services > - ::FDFF:FFFF:FFFF:FF80-::FDFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF for anycasts (RFC 2526) > > Regards > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List > IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng > FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng > Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
