diff --git a/draft-nbourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6.xml b/draft-nbourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6.xml index 7bd70d6..ba66661 100644 --- a/draft-nbourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6.xml +++ b/draft-nbourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6.xml @@ -121,26 +121,27 @@ backward compatibility. (*) rate is low enough. --> - For host computers on local area networks, generation of interface - identifiers is no longer necessarily bound to layer 2 addresses (MACs) - . Therefore their - length, previously fixed at 64 bits , is in fact - a variably-sized parameter as explicitly acknowledged in Section - 5.5.3(d) of which states: - - Note that a future revision of the address architecture - [RFC4291] and a future link-type-specific document, which will - still be consistent with each other, could potentially allow for - an interface identifier of length other than the value defined in - the current documents. Thus, an implementation should not assume - a particular constant. Rather, it should expect any lengths of - interface identifiers. - -
+ For host computers on local area networks, generation of interface + identifiers is no longer necessarily bound to layer 2 addresses (MACs) + . Therefore their + length, previously fixed at 64 bits , is in fact + a variably-sized parameter as explicitly acknowledged in Section + 5.5.3(d) of which states: + + Note that a future revision of the address architecture + [RFC4291] and a future link-type-specific document, which will + still be consistent with each other, could potentially allow for + an interface identifier of length other than the value defined in + the current documents. Thus, an implementation should not assume + a particular constant. Rather, it should expect any lengths of + interface identifiers. + + + As IPv6 usage has evolved and grown over in recent years, it has become evident that it faces several scaling and coordination problems. These problems are analogous to allocation and coordination @@ -165,7 +166,7 @@ rate is low enough.
- + IPv6 unicast interfaces may use any subnet length up to 128 except for situations where an Internet Standard document may impose a particular length, for example Stateless Address Autoconfiguration @@ -178,6 +179,8 @@ rate is low enough. differentiate at a different granularity than is used by any such automated link local address configuration tools. +
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