RFC 4291:IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
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... field (except for the case described in 2.). 2. Due to some methods of allocating certain styles of IPv6 addresses, it will be common for addresses to contain long strings ...


... [EUI64] defines a method to create an IEEE EUI-64 ...
... bit MACs. Examples include LocalTalk and Arcnet. The method to create a Modified EUI-64 ...



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