Margaret Wasserman wrote: > ... > In the Yokohama meeting, Steve Deering lead a discussion on > the uniqueness of IIDs, and there was a pretty big majority > of people in the room who thought that we shouldn't even > require IIDs to > be unique on a link.
But nobody asked how many of that majority had any clue about actually operating a network. The question was should we allow flexibility, and completely ignored the confusion that will be caused trying to explain to first line operators that on subnet A all addresses with the same IID map to a single node, but on subnet B they don't. They are going to have a hard enough time with multiple addresses per node, we should not be making it more complex by allowing shared IIDs on a link. Tony -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
