Re: Why would anyone want to use a 64 bit interface identifier? (was: what problem is solved by proscribing non-64 bit prefixes?)

[Alexandru Petrescu <alexandru.petrescu at gmail.com>]

Dunn, Jeffrey H. wrote:
[...]
> As a result of these observations, I am turning the question around:
> Why would anyone want to use a 64 bit interface identifier?

I speculate that one possible reason for this was to design a SLAAC over 
Ethernet that is reliable, simple, universal and straightforward to 
implement.

In a way, I see SLAAC to have become so popular as opposed to DHCP. 
Were DHCPv6 more developed we wouldn't have this IID-64bit problem, I think.

Alex

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