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Re: Review of draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-06

David Farmer <farmer@umn.edu> Sat, 14 January 2017 04:35 UTC

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From: David Farmer <farmer@umn.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:35:27 -0600
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Subject: Re: Review of draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-06
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On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 9:28 PM, Brian E Carpenter <
brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:

> ....
>
> Which is exactly why we have so far only delegated 1/8 of the
> IPv6 address space for global unicast allocation, leaving a *lot*
> of space for fixing our mistakes. Moving away from /64 as the
> recommended subnet size might, or might not, prove to be necessary in
> the long term future. That's why the point about routing being
> classless is fundamental. I do think we need to be a bit more
> precise on this point in 4291bis.
>
>     Brian


Exactly, /64 is the RECOMMENDED subnet size, or a SHOULD from RFC2119, and
I'm fine with that, but that's not what the following says.

   For all unicast addresses, except those that start with the binary
   value 000, Interface IDs are required to be 64 bits long.  Background
   on the 64 bit boundary in IPv6 addresses can be found in [RFC7421
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7421>].


It says REQUIRED, that is a MUST from RFC2119, and I believe it to be an
Imperative as discussed in section 6 of RFC2119.

I'm fine with /64, /127 and /128 as the RECOMMENDED subnet sizes, I support
that and believe it to be the consensus of the IETF. Maybe even explicitly
noting /65 through /126 are NOT RECOMMENDED subnet sizes, and not support
by SLACC.  But it is not correct to say the /64 is REQUIRED.

I also believe RFC7608 supports this conclusion.

Thanks.

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