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Re: [homenet] homenet-prefix-assignment update - prefix length 64 and on prefix comparison

Alexandru Petrescu <alexandru.petrescu@gmail.com> Thu, 09 October 2014 09:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] homenet-prefix-assignment update - prefix length 64 and on prefix comparison
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Le 09/10/2014 02:35, Brian E Carpenter a écrit :
> On 09/10/2014 03:21, Tim Chown wrote:
>> On 8 Oct 2014, at 14:14, Pierre Pfister <pierre.pfister@darou.fr> wrote:
>>> Why should we mandate homenet implementations to *brake* in situations where they could work fine ? Why should we voluntarily prevent a link from being configured if we actually can configure it ?
>>>
>>> If MUSTs are the solution, then I would rather see a ‘ISP MUST provide a /56 to customers’ than ‘Homenet MUST brake when the provided prefix is not big enough’.
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>> But this is what the homenet arch text says in Section 3.4.1:
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-homenet-arch-17#section-3.4.1
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>> i.e. don’t go longer than /64, and ISPs should provide enough prefixes.
>>
>> The why64 text is very relevant here.
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> And could be added as a reference. It's already in IESG Evaluation
> (with one open issue that was just flagged).
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> Certainly the mechanisms should support any prefix length, but
> the reality remains that only /64 subnets work properly in all
> circumstances today.

But this is new work, not work documenting existing practice.

Alex

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