Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion
Ricky Beam
jfbeam at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 04:45:36 UTC 2015
On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:32:35 -0400, Mel Beckman <mel at beckman.org> wrote:
> You have to draw the limbs somewhere. Why not 512 bits? 1024? The IETF
> engineers that thought about this long and hard and discussed the topic
> we've just had, and a thousands of other topics, decided on 128. I'm
> inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt. :)
Actually, it was *64*, but SLAAC's use of MAC would've left only 16 bits.
Adding it on meant a 112bit network. Round up and we get 128!
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