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Re: IPv6 address assignment for strictly point-to-point links and Device Loopbacks

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Thu, 27 September 2012 13:12 UTC

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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:12:10 +0100
From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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To: Usman Latif <osmankh@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: IPv6 address assignment for strictly point-to-point links and Device Loopbacks
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Usman,

On 27/09/2012 12:43, Usman Latif wrote:
> Hi Joel,
> 
> RFC 6164 overriding 3627 seems logical
> However, I am looking more from perspective of 5375

RFC 5375 is an Informational document. You are at liberty to read it or not,
and to make use of it or not.

RFC 6164 is a Standards track document. It is of course a voluntary standard
like all IETF standards, but if you claim to implement it, it clearly preempts
an older Informational document such as RFC 5375.

As SM reminded us, it was probably a mistake that RFC 6164 didn't formally
update RFC 5375, but so what? There are many minor inconsistencies between
RFCs. Please don't lose any sleep over it. As long as you aren't accidentally
running SLAAC on a pt2pt link, none of this matters, as far as I can see.

   Brian

P.S. I am now adding this thread to my "ietf-silly-subj" filter.

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