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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
