allocating lowest 64 bits from WGS84
Rémi Després
remi.despres at free.fr
Wed Jan 12 11:21:49 CET 2011
Le 11 janv. 2011 à 11:16, Mark Smith a écrit :
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:45:50 +0100
> Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>
>> Assuming I assign my MAC from physical host WGS 84 GPS
>> position fixes (e.g. 24 bit for each long/lat, no alt,
>> 48 bit total), and add 16 bit for altitude position
>> part to obtain the 64 bit host address part,
>> would that break any IPv6 built-in assumptions?
>>
>
> As long as you didn't conflict with any of these -
>
> "Reserved IPv6 Interface Identifiers"
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html//rfc5453
>
> and made sure that bit 70 is set to zero, indicating that the address
> is not derived from a globally unique token e.g. MAC address, you
> should be fine.
+1
RD
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