Subject: RE: Identification

From: "Bound, Jim" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 02:50:27 -0500

> However, if they only burned the lower 64 bits of an IPv6 
> address into 
> their chips as permanent identifiers, there is no issue 
> provided those 
> identifiers are globally unique.

That's a big if.  I think it can be done and margin of duplication would
be minimal.

> 
> > Even identifiers are chaotic and IPv6
> > architecture implies this is not technically wise.
> 
> In the context of routing, IPv6 treats the lower 64 bits as opaque 
> values, does it not?

For one Format Prefix yes.  But not all.  This was part of the Robert
Elz objection to the recent addr arch to IAB.

/jim
> Rgds,
> -drc