Alain, At 02:10 PM 12/9/2002, Alain Durand wrote:
MAC addresses are stable. What may not be stable is their life in on an interface in a specific machine. The words in the draft are:This proposal is making the assumption that MAC addreses are somehow stable. I think this is a bad idea.
3.2 Assignment
The globally unique site-local prefixes defined in this document are
intended to be manually assigned to router interfaces in a site. The
global token used in each prefix would be created from an EUI-48
address found in an interface on the subnet.
There is no requirement that this be the same as the routers interface nor is it required to be automatic.
MAC addresses were selected as a source of global token because they are good global token.
Bob
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