Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-default-iids-16.txt> (Recommendation on Stable IPv6 Interface Identifiers) to Proposed Standard

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Tue, 15 November 2016 08:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-default-iids-16.txt> (Recommendation on Stable IPv6 Interface Identifiers) to Proposed Standard
To: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>, IETF Discussion <ietf@ietf.org>
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On 11/15/2016 04:44 AM, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 12:13 PM, The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org
> <mailto:iesg-secretary@ietf.org>> wrote:
> 
>     It formally updates RFC2464, RFC2467,
>        RFC2470, RFC2491, RFC2492, RFC2497, RFC2590, RFC3146, RFC3572,
>        RFC4291, RFC4338, RFC4391, RFC5072, and RFC5121.
> 
> 
> Does this document need to be a formal update to those RFCs? After all
> the issues were resolved, the only remaining text that references those
> RFCs is:
> 
>    In particular,
>    this document RECOMMENDS that nodes do not generate stable IIDs with
>    the schemes specified in [RFC2464], [RFC2467], [RFC2470], [RFC2491],
>    [RFC2492], [RFC2497], [RFC2590], [RFC3146], [RFC3572], [RFC4338],
>    [RFC4391], [RFC5121], and [RFC5072].
> 
> Does that require a formal update?

IMO, it certainly does, sine we're recommending something different than
what such RFCs are saying -- i.e., we're updating them.

Besides, the metadata points readers of such documents that they should
read this one.

Thanks!

Best regards,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
e-mail: fgont@si6networks.com
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