Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 17:10:24 +0200
From: "Hesham Soliman (ERA)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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| => How can yahoo.com reliably know any possible client??
It most likely can't, but why exactly is yahoo.com going to care?
The assumptions required to mount a plausible case where the bidding
down scenario (as interesting a theoretical problem as it is) can
actually apply in some way, and especially where allocating an address
bit to help avoid id would work, are simply out of this world.
That said, of the two current proposals to define a bit to have special
meaning in the IID part of an address, this one is much more rational
than the other one - that is, to have a bit that says "this IID is
unique". That one is even more absurd.
Let's just return all the bits in the IID part of the address to whoevevr
has been delegated the relevant prefix, to use however they like (with
guidance to implementations on how they should behave by default for best
interoperability).
kre
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