Re: [Hipsec] Need to clarify HIT prefix

Julien Laganier <julien.ietf@gmail.com> Fri, 15 April 2011 10:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Hipsec] Need to clarify HIT prefix
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and FWIW 2001:10::/28 and 2001:0000::/32 are disjoint.

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Julien Laganier <julien.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv6-special-registry/iana-ipv6-special-registry.xml
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@htt-consult.com> wrote:
>> WHAT is the prefix used in HIPv1 (RFC 5201)?
>>
>> RFC 4843 states:
>>
>>   Prefix          : A constant 28-bit-long bitstring value
>>                     (2001:10::/28).
>>
>>
>> But 4843-bis states:
>>
>>   IANA allocated a temporary non-routable 28-bit prefix from the IPv6
>>   address space.  By default, the prefix will be returned to IANA in
>>   2014, continued use requiring IETF consensus.  As per [RFC4773], the
>>   28-bit prefix was drawn out of the IANA Special Purpose Address
>>   Block, namely 2001:0000::/23, in support of the experimental usage
>>   described in this document.  IANA has updated the IPv6 Special
>>   Purpose Address Registry.
>>
>> There is NOTHING in the IANA registry about any assignment.  But as I plowed
>> through the iana assignment information, I found:
>>
>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-unicast-address-assignments/ipv6-unicast-address-assignments.xml
>>
>> [9]    3FFE:831F::/32 was used for Teredo in some old but widely
>>        distributed networking stacks. This usage is deprecated in favour of
>> 2001::/32,
>>        which was allocated for the purpose in [RFC4380]
>>
>> And sure enough in 4380:
>>
>> 2.6. Global Teredo IPv6 Service Prefix
>>
>>   An IPv6 addressing prefix whose value is 2001:0000:/32.
>>
>> From this I MIGHT infer that Teredo is stepping within HIP's ORCHID
>> allocation!
>>
>> Obviously this needs some clarification (at least for me!)
>>
>> AND
>>
>> IANA needs to put in the registry what HIPv1 is using, and then make sure
>> that the HIPv2 prefix is publicized.
>>
>>
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