On 7 aug 2008, at 14:08, Steven Blake wrote:
As long as hosts are allowed to autoconfigure the lower 8 bytes of theiraddress field, then it is not possible to guarantee global uniqueness for that part of the address. The best that can be accomplished is toensure that nothing breaks if two hosts in the Internet happen to sharethe same value for those 8 bytes.
I maintain that having a non-unique identifier in all packets doesn't buy us anything useful:
- can't use it to identify correspondents, so additional identification necessary - can't filter on it, so this will be done on locators = no renumberability - can't look locators up using the id, so a working locator must always accompany id = reduced multihoming and mobility
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