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Re: [v6ops] draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis prohibiting non-/64 subnets

Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> Fri, 24 February 2017 03:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis prohibiting non-/64 subnets
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:18 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:

> > But since nobody seemed to care for the last 14 years
>
> this is false.  some people have been fighting this for 20 years.
> though the first years were more concentrated on fighting the TLS/NLA
> insanity, which makes this /64 mess look minor.  for those of us trying
> to deal with classful ipv6 for the last 20 years, this /64 issue is the
> last clean-up.
>
>
The original message in the thread about this draft:
" > The IESG has received a request from the IPv6 Maintenance WG (6man) to
> consider the following document:
> - 'IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture'
>   <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> as Internet Standard
>
> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
> final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
> ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2017-03-01. Exceptionally, comments may be
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Nothing in the past really matters here, what matters is: "Is the bis draft
all set, did we fix all the things which must be fixed before this draft
becomes a real 'standard'?"

"no, I don't think we did" - randy (as strawman arguer)

Folk's frustrations are coming out, deep breath and think before 'send'
please... we're all really trying to do the right thing, yes?

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