proposal for RIPE's IPv6-address space structure

On Fri, 22 Nov 1996 14:10:37 +0200 (EET) 
 Petri Helenius <pete at sms.fi> alleged:

> Using only 56 bits for the IR would effectively defeat the possiblity
> of using MAC / ESI addresses as the low 48 bits of an IP address.

There are pluses to this though.

Neil
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