In your previous mail you wrote: > => this is like link-layer address collision (for instance two Ethernet > boards with the same MAC address in ROMs), the damage is done > independently/before DAD, i.e. or we consider it can't happen, > or we consider it is the business of someone else... Exactly. What I was trying to stress is that we're already subject to "collisions" due to a human factor: administrative errors.
=> administrators are *responsible* of administrative errors: this makes the difference. > -add the p in prf. > > => ??? Sorry, not trying to be mysterious. Prf is short for pseudo-random function generators. The "pseudo" is sometimes "apparent". For the fun, two lines of a famous quote by von Neumann: "Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin". Just for the fun of it :-) => I agree that an algorithm cannot give a random number by definition of what are an algorithme and a random number. But some hardware devices (available on i810 chipset serie for instance) give good quality random numbers... (obviously an overkilling in this case :-). 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
