Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt

Greg Hankins <ghankins@mindspring.com> Wed, 01 March 2017 10:45 UTC

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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 05:44:57 -0500
From: Greg Hankins <ghankins@mindspring.com>
To: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Subject: Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 06:59:26PM +0900, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Greg Hankins <ghankins@mindspring.com> wrote:
>> We can never change our
>> implementation to be compliant with the proposed text because of the
>> operational havoc it would create for our customers.  It's simply
>> infeasible
>> to impose these kind of addressing restrictions.
>
>The word "change" is incorrect here, because the standard that was current
>when Nokia wrote its implementation had pretty much exactly the same
>requirement. (The reason for that is that *all* past standards have
>contained this language except for RFC 1884, which specified /80, which
>won't work in the real world.)
>
>Could you reword your position to take into account that fact?

Call it whatever you want, the point again is that we have customers who have
deployed whatever addressing architecture meets their requirements, and we
can't force them to change it.  It's their network and their address space.

You are correct that other standards had the same requirement, which my
current and all of my former employer's* implementations also ignored for
the same reasons that have been mentioned.  This is a good opportunity
for the -bis revision to reflect the state of operational deployments that
have proven the assumptions in the original standard to be impractical.

Is anyone aware of any implementations that comply with this requirement?

Greg

* Riverstone, Force10, Brocade

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Greg Hankins <ghankins@mindspring.com>