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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