On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Thomas Narten <[email protected]> wrote:
> The document currently says:
>
>   Routers MUST support the assignment of /127 prefixes on point-to-
>   point inter-router links.
>
> I fully support this.
>
> However, I believe that as far as routing is concerned, IPv6 continues
> to be based on CIDR. There is nothing special about the  64 boundary
> from a routing perspective. This, I believe the above should be
> changed to the following:
>
>   Routers MUST support the assignment of arbitrary length prefixes
>   (including but not limited to /127s) on point-to-point inter-router
>   links.
>
> I do not see any reason to restrict implementations to only supporting
> /127s prefixes.
>
> Thoughts? In particular, I'd like to hear from operators as to whether
> they want the functionality of being able to assign subnets of
> arbitrary length, or whether it would be sufficient to only support /127s.

+ 1 from a network operator.  We don't need handcuffs.

Cameron
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