On 5/10/19 2:10 PM, Gert Doering wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 01:07:44PM +0200, H.Zuleger wrote:
(The whole reason why /64 semeed a good idea back then was CGA and
"we can make it work with EUI-64 on IEEE-1394 devices!", of which CGA
never truly happened, EUI-64 based on MAC addresses is dying off, and
IEEE-1394 is long gone... I always thought that /64 was a bit silly)
Maybe, but this large address space, give you the room for all these ideas (and
a lot more like 8+8 etc.).
I think the great benefit and the main driver was (and is) the full automated
address configuration.
I've heard lots of "great ideas" in the last 20 years...
What is left:
- large networks are hard
- can we please do p2p instead, routed, wherever possible
- autoconfig based on hardware identifiers sucks, can we please do
something hash-based (= autoconf in a /96 would quite likely work
perfectly fine)
- we do not have enough bits *in front* of the /64 mark to do nice things
This! Or maybe rewrite it to "...to do a lot of nice things"
Gert Doering
-- NetMaster
