On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 00:28 +0000, Dave Thaler wrote: > The bits in the interface identifier are not indicative of goodness or > appropriateness or whatever.
Firstly, thanks for the extensive explanation.
I realise now that I was confusing two comparisons - the comparison of
an address with a prefix in the policy table and the comparison of two
addresses with each other.
Comparing an address with a prefix in the policy table must continue for
as many bits as are specified for the prefix in the policy table.
Is that understanding correct? If so, given the redefinition of
CommonPrefixLen(), do the definitions of Label() and Precedence() need
to make this point explicit?
> 1) explicitly add Rule 9 which is already implied.
Is it? In the fourth paragraph of Section 5, the draft says
If the eight rules fail to choose a single address,
the tie-breaker is implementation-specific.
I suppose one could say that since the draft does not specify an initial
ordering, the ordering is implementation-specific, so therefore the
tie-breaker is implementation specific :-) but that's not really the
point. If the draft wants the ordering to be the tie-breaker I think it
has to say so explicitly, as that would then exclude other tie-breaking
mechanisms.
It seems to me that the draft should be left as it is in this respect,
and thus allow an implementation to use the original ordering if it
wants to, but not demand it or expect it.
Regards, K.
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