%% You should probably cite draft-ietf-6man-why64 instead of this I-D. @techreport{carpenter-6man-why64-00, number = {draft-carpenter-6man-why64-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-carpenter-6man-why64/00/}, author = {Brian E. Carpenter and Tim Chown and Fernando Gont and Sheng Jiang and Alexandre Petrescu and Andrew Yourtchenko}, title = {{Analysis of the 64-bit Boundary in IPv6 Addressing}}, pagetotal = 14, year = 2014, month = jan, day = 5, abstract = {The IPv6 unicast addressing format includes a separation between the prefix used to route packets to a subnet and the interface identifier used to specify a given interface connected to that subnet. Historically the interface identifier has been defined as 64 bits long, leaving 64 bits for the prefix. This document discusses the reasons for this fixed boundary and the issues involved in treating it as a variable boundary.}, }