Re: we should enable RFC7217 by default

Reply: Pouria Mousavizadeh Tehrani : "Re: we should enable RFC7217 by default"
In reply to: Pouria Mousavizadeh Tehrani : "we should enable RFC7217 by default"
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From: Olivier_Cochard-Labbé <olivier_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:26:34 UTC

On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 1:05 AM Pouria Mousavizadeh Tehrani <
pouria@freebsd.org> wrote:

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> What do you think?
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In a server environment, administrators typically assign static IPv6
addresses manually and do not use the EUI-64 method.
Switching to RFC 7217 should impact mainly desktops and laptops (the main
beneficiaries of this privacy feature).
While some cloud setups use SLAAC, a major release (16.0) is the
appropriate time for such a change to ensure we follow modern security
standards by default.
I support this change.

Olivier