diff --git a/draft-nbourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6.xml b/draft-nbourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6.xml index e7ae187..19b39d7 100644 --- a/draft-nbourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6.xml +++ b/draft-nbourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6.xml @@ -71,14 +71,23 @@ target="RFC2460"/>, IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture, see , and the proposed changes to , see . - + target="I-D.hinden-6man-rfc4291bis"/>. + + An important recent development in IPv6 is that for host computers on local area networks, the way in which interface identifiers are formed is no longer bound to layer 2 addresses (MAC - addresses) . We can therefore appreciate + addresses) . We can therefore appreciate that their length, previously fixed at 64 bits , is in fact a free parameter as stated in .