Hi, On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 01:07:44PM +0200, H.Zuleger wrote: > > (The whole reason why /64 semeed a good idea back then was CGA and > > "we can make it work with EUI-64 on IEEE-1394 devices!", of which CGA > > never truly happened, EUI-64 based on MAC addresses is dying off, and > > IEEE-1394 is long gone... I always thought that /64 was a bit silly) > Maybe, but this large address space, give you the room for all these ideas > (and a lot more like 8+8 etc.). > I think the great benefit and the main driver was (and is) the full automated > address configuration.
I've heard lots of "great ideas" in the last 20 years...
What is left:
- large networks are hard
- can we please do p2p instead, routed, wherever possible
- autoconfig based on hardware identifiers sucks, can we please do
something hash-based (= autoconf in a /96 would quite likely work
perfectly fine)
- we do not have enough bits *in front* of the /64 mark to do nice things
Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?
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