Re: [v6ops] Stateful SLAAC (draft-ietf-v6ops-unique-ipv6-prefix-per-host)

DaeYoung KIM <dykim6@gmail.com> Mon, 13 November 2017 04:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Stateful SLAAC (draft-ietf-v6ops-unique-ipv6-prefix-per-host)
From: DaeYoung KIM <dykim6@gmail.com>
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Thanks, Erik. Well taken.

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> On 13 Nov 2017, at 11:07, Erik Nordmark <nordmark@acm.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/11/2017 11:54 AM, DY Kim wrote:
>> The ‘state’ in the wording SLAAC means that of the host, I mean.
> 
> DY,
> 
> The history of why SLAAC has "stateless" in its name in its name doesn't match your statement.
> When SLAAC was created there was BOOTP/DHCP for IPv4, but not work had started on what would later become DHCPv6, but such work was anticipated. The use of "stateless" was to distinguish SLAAC from the case where there is a network service (akin to DHCP) which retains state about the allocations made for hosts. At that time the use of DHCPv4 for IPv4 address allocation was quite new and not very robust and there was concerns about IPv6 having a hard dependency on such a service.
> 
> Also, further back in time, at the Big10 meeting of the IPng directorate was the first time I heard the 128 bit address format be discussed with the idea than an IPv6 address could be formed using (a) prefix(es) advertised by the router and a 48 byte mac address of the host following an approach which had been used in other protocols (IPX I believe).
> 
> The fact that as IPv6 then evolved that evolved from 48 byte MAC to 64 bit IID and the IID's later became more friendly to privacy considerations doesn't change the fact that we have never added a requirement that routers speaking SLAAC maintain per-host allocation information; they do maintain per-link configuration information.
> 
> 
> Whether the split in to stateless and stateful (aka DHCPv6) address allocation was a wise choice is something I leave as an exercise to the reader. I merely offer the observation that we keep on muddling any boundaries between stateless and stateful address allocation and also between address allocation and host configuration.
> The resulting larger number of possible implementation and configuration choices on the host and network/router side doesn't seem helpful in facilitating interoperable protocols.
> 
> Regards,
>   Erik
> 
> 
>> SLAAC don’t need to require the router to do anything special, other than the router’s usual prefix advertisement through an RA.
>> The same is true of the case wherein DHCP is used to assign addresses to hosts by the router.
>> How the router keeps the link prefix info in its system is an interest neither to DHCP or SLAAC, since the link prefix itself is not about address assignment in which DHCP and SLAAC are interested.
>> How the router keeps the link prefix(es), whether shared or unique to each hosts, is an issue of the router system implementation, not of the protocols DHCP or SLAAC.
>> Hence, the question about how the prefix(es) are stored or recovered should be addressed to the router spec, neither to DHCP, nor to SLAAC, nor to this draft, I’d think.
>> ---
>> DY
>>> On 11 Nov 2017, at 12:16, Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 11/11/2017 12:13 AM, DY Kim wrote:
>>>> The host’s state.
>>>> 
>>>> RFC 4862:
>>>> 
>>>>  "This document specifies the steps a host takes in deciding how to autoconfigure its interfaces in IP version 6 (IPv6).”
>>>> 
>>>>  "The stateless mechanism allows a host to generate its own addresses using a combination of locally available information and information advertised by routers."
>>> 
>>> Host state, maintained at the router?
>>> 
>>> 
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