Re: I-D ACTION:draft-narten-ipv6-3177bis-48boundary-00.txt

Bob Hinden <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:03:41 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ipv6,gmane.org.apnic.global-v6
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jordi,

>I see situations for assigning a /128 when a unique device is connected,
>which is not going to route anything else, but once it has other interfaces
>(which is the most common case and will become more and more often) ...

A /128 breaks IPv6 Privacy Addresses (RFC3041).  Every device needs a /64 
to allow this mechanism to be used.

Bob



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