On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 17:37, Aidan Williams wrote: > Mark Smith wrote: > > >Obviously it doesn't matter, but providing an explicit procedure to > >generate the 'good enough' unique number that doesn't depend on one of > >the EUI-48 values embedded in a device, will eliminate questions about > >which is the best EUI-48 address to use from IPv6 mailing lists / > >discussion forums, support lines etc, and possibly this mail list, even > >when there is no best EUI-48 to use. > > > Doesn't exactly the same issue present itself with birthdays? > eg: Which is the best birthday to pick? Mine or a descendents?
I don't think so, everybody has a favorite birthday - their own :-) > And all the unix guys will pick 1/1/1970.. ;-) > Unfortunately, there are some unix guys whos' birthday IS 1/1/1970 ! I'm not familiar with the resolution of NTP, but I'd suspect it would be something like milliseconds. I'd think it is pretty unlikely that two people, at separate sites, with the same birthday, were executing this algorithm at the same millisecond. Regards, Mark. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
