There is a part of me that wishes that we just deploy what we have. There is 
another part that notices that between IEEE802, privacy addresses, CGA, stable 
privacy addresses and probably a few more, we have built a nice mess and maybe 
we should clean it up. For example, we could decree that composing and IID from 
a MAC address is obsolete, and we could unify CGA and other privacy addresses. 
Add some salt can make the CGA addresses as randomized as the privacy 
addresses; change the lifetime of the key and you get whatever address lifetime 
is deemed appropriate. But then, the best part of me observes that with the 
current level of IPv6 deployment, maybe we don't have an urgent need for more 
specs...

-- Christian Huitema

 
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