Re: [Int-dir] Review of draft-ietf-dmm-4283mnids-03

神明達哉 <[email protected]>
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At Sun, 15 Jan 2017 21:08:41 -0800,
Charlie Perkins <[email protected]> wrote:

> > - Section 4.5
> >
> >     2000, modulo 2^32.  Since the link-layer address can be of
> > variable
> >     length [RFC2464], the DUID-LLT is of variable length.
> >
> >    I don't understand why RFC2464 is referenced in this context.  This
> >    RFC is about IPv6 over Ethernet, and assumes a fixed (6 bytes)
> >    length of hardware address.
>
> I don't quite know what to do about this.  I actually just copied this
> language from RFC 3315.  I think that the citation is also wrong in RFC
> 3315, for the same reason as given here.  I could simply delete the
> reference to RFC 2464.

I don't see "Since the link-layer address can be of variable length
[RFC2464], the DUID-LLT is of variable length." in RFC3315.  See also
the followup comment by Bernie.  Deleting the reference will certainly
address my concern, and I personally don't mind not having a reference
here.

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