Subnet ID Deprecation for IPv6 draft-dykim-v6ops-sid6-00

(김대영 / 前 충남대학교 교수)

Abstract

   Deprecation of the subnet ID in IPv6 networking is proposed; the subnet ID is set to zero so that all nodes in a site carry the same prefix.  While the procedures for neighbor discovery and duplicate address detection have to be changed, possible simplification gains in IPv6 networking including that of intra-site host- and subnet-mobility might be worth the modification.  Site-external behaviors don't change through this modification, enabling incremental deployment of the proposal.  Sites of manageable sizes for which scalability is not much a critical issue might consider the mode of operation proposed in this document.