diff --git a/draft-nbourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6.xml b/draft-nbourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6.xml index 423f07b..fe4c525 100644 --- a/draft-nbourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6.xml +++ b/draft-nbourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6.xml @@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ - + @@ -232,6 +234,12 @@ rate is low enough. hard-coded, and to favor portability of devices and operating systems. + As most wireless operators give a single /64 to wireless clients, + subnetting beyond /64 is a real world requirement, and its absence + is an incentive to deploy network address translation for IPv6. In + the long term this is a use case for supporting longer prefixes than + /64, in order to avoid NAT. + Note that OpenBSD ships with SLAAC for lengths longer than /64.