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Iljitsch> That's exactly the reason why the IETF has such a hard
Iljitsch> time moving forward: whatever way of abusing IP you can
Iljitsch> think of, someone is doing it today, and breaking that
Iljitsch> "feature" will gravely upset them. It's the age old
Iljitsch> battle between the irresistible force (progress) and the
Iljitsch> immovable object (users) I guess.
And on that vein perhaps it's prudent for people using network
prefixes longer than /64 to take care to ensure that the bit positions
in the IPv6 address that should correspond to the u and g bits in the
modified EUI-64 interface ID (according to RFC 3513) are both set to
zero.
-roy
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