> Bob, > > > > >>Hence, I see no real reason at all to stray from FEC0::/10 - and lots > >>of reasons to remain in that space. > > > > I think you are suggesting that the draft be changed to reuse the > > FEC0::/10 space with a resulting 38-bit global ID. This would allow > > for 274,877,906,944 prefixes, or 30 per person in 2050. > > > > My preference would be for a larger global ID, but I would like to > > hear what other folks think. > > > > For what it is worth, I agree with kre as well.
Isn't that cool? We had this discussion before. In the spring of 1997, as a matter of fact. And the suggestion then was: > Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 11:25:42 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Huitema) > Subject: (IPng 3627) Re: W.G. Last Call on "Advanced Sockets API for IPv6" > > > Site-local addresses have the same problem as link-local when a > > host has interfaces in multiple sites, e.g. interface A belongs to > > site X and interface B belongs to site Y. > > In fact, site local addresses have all the problems related to non unique > addresses, which are well known and documented in e.g. RFC 1627. This may > be late in the game, but we should really consider a way to somehow avoid > or minimize the problems related to that non-uniqueness. > > Did we ever consider inserting some site identifier, e.g. a random value, > in the site local prefix ? I know that this would not make the problem > disappear entirely, I know that randomness leads to unhappy birthdays, > specially when the random number is not actually random (albeit the site > manager could actually trow dices, it is a one time operation). But we > could still go a long way... Did we not in fact go a long way those last 8 years? -- Christian Huitema -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
