On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Brian E Carpenter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com" target="_blank">brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">iirc there were attempts to educate the 3GPP world before they created</div></div>
the current situation, but those attempts failed.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Actually, I don't think they failed. I believe that at the time the 3GPP was considering assigning each handset a /128, but the IETF pushed back and said it had to be /64. As a result, /64 was explicitly hardcoded into the 3GPP the standard (to the chagrin of some) and I have personally cited it when explaining to operators that they can't decide which IID (or even how many IIDs) the phone picks for itself.</div>
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