subnet prefix length > 64 breaks IPv6?
Ray Soucy
rps at maine.edu
Wed Dec 28 12:13:30 UTC 2011
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum
<iljitsch at muada.com> wrote:
> Also somehow the rule that all normal address space must use 64-bit interface
> identifiers found its way into the specs for no reason that I have ever been able
> to uncover. On the other hand there's also the rule that IPv6 is classless and
> therefore routing on any prefix length must be supported, although for some
> implementations forwarding based on > /64 is > somewhat less efficient.
This ambiguity has always bothered me. The address architecture RFC
requires a 64-bit interface identifier, but it's required to be
unenforced by implementation, which makes it more of a suggestion at
best. I think the wording should be updated to changed MUST to
SHOULD. That said, and despite my own use of prefix lengths other
than 64-bit, I do believe that a 64-bit prefix for each host network
is in our long-term interest. Not having to size networks based on
the number of hosts is a good thing. Features made possible by a
64-bit address space is a good thing.
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Ray Soucy
Epic Communications Specialist
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