Re: Pete Resnick's Abstain on draft-ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-16: (with COMMENT)

[Fernando Gont <[e-mail]>]

Hi, Pete,

Thanks so much for your feedback! -- Please find my responses in-line...

On 01/22/2014 04:20 PM, Pete Resnick wrote:
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> COMMENT:
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> This is an algorithm to generate stable, private, and mostly unique
> addresses. It does not affect interoperability at all if people choose a
> different method. 

The short answer to this is what Bob has already responding:

We currently require nodes to embed their hardware address in the IID
when they do SLAAC. And every other specification to generate IIDs is
also Std track. So we are being consistent.

In addition, the document itself has requirements when it comes to
things you MUST or SHOULD do... otherwise, the mechanism doesn't work as
expected.

All the above said, there are many documents from different areas where
we have std track RFCs which "do not affect interoperability". e.g. TCP
congestion control, TCPs initial RTO, etc. which, from your pov, should
be informational?

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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