Le 2012-12-12 à 17:23, Ran Atkinson <[email protected]> a écrit :

> 
> On Weds 12th December, Remi Despres wrote, in part:
>> Not sure however that the two proposed questions 
>> are clear enough because today:
>> - some IIDs have u = 0, and some have u = 1,
>> - some IIDs have g = 0, and some have g = 1. 
>> The only combination that isn't used is u=g=1.

> 
> While U==G==1 is not *widely deployed* today,

My point was only about IIDs of UNICAST addresses, those in scope of RFC 4291.
Do you know any deployment with u=g=1 in this context ?  

RD


> it does have a very clear definition, namely:
> 
>       (U==1 && G==1) defines a global-scope 
>       multicast identifier.
> 
> This is clear not only from a plain-language
> reading of RFC-4291, Section 2.5.1, but also 
> from the IEEE 802 definition of an EUI-64.
> 
> Further, an IID formed by algorithmically translating
> an IEEE 802 MAC Address (e.g. using RFC-4291,
> Appendix A), whether using a unicast or multicast
> MAC address, is a widely deployed example of an
> "interface identifier with universal scope".
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Ran
> 
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