Markku,

>I'm somewhat puzzled by this thread... has it been decided that IPv6
>address is 64+64, and that latter 64 is EUI-64 format interface ID for
>all current and future IPv6 addresses?

Yes.  The use of 64 bit interface ID's is defined for prefixes 001 through 
111 ( except for multicast addresses), in RFC2373 "IP Version 6 Addressing 
Architecture" published July 1998.  See section 2.4.  The text regarding 
EUI-64 has been clarified in <draft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-07.txt>.

Bob

>If not, I cannot see what is the point of assigning these bits from
>EUI-64 and expect them to be valid for other ID formats? They can only
>be guideline for certain link layers, but have not meaning between end
>nodes.

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