10 Aug
2005
10 Aug
'05
6:34 p.m.
Iljitsch> That's exactly the reason why the IETF has such a hard Iljitsch> time moving forward: whatever way of abusing IP you can Iljitsch> think of, someone is doing it today, and breaking that Iljitsch> "feature" will gravely upset them. It's the age old Iljitsch> battle between the irresistible force (progress) and the Iljitsch> immovable object (users) I guess. And on that vein perhaps it's prudent for people using network prefixes longer than /64 to take care to ensure that the bit positions in the IPv6 address that should correspond to the u and g bits in the modified EUI-64 interface ID (according to RFC 3513) are both set to zero. -roy