Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Wed, 15 February 2017 21:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard
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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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On 15/02/2017 22:31, otroan@employees.org wrote:
> Brian,
> 
>>>> Brian, changing the 64 bit boundary is such a big change that I would
>>>> claim it is far outside the scope of advancing 4291 to Internet standard.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Agreed.
>>
>> Of course. The point is only that it's a parameter in the design of SLAAC,
>> whose value is set by the address architecture.
> 
> If your statement is that we only have the 64 bit boundary because of SLAAC I believe you are wrong.
> Can you provide any support for that view?

No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that SLAAC - by design - would work
with any reasonable IID length, but we've chosen to fix it at 64.

> If I understand you correctly, your proposal is to change the fixed 64 bit Interface-ID length in IPv6 to a variable one, with an exception for links where SLAAC is used.

No. At least not in the foreseeable future. But we should allow for the fact that if
prefixes between /64 and /127 are used, routing needs to just work. That's all.

> How do you practically suggest to do this, given the issues raised in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7421#section-4.1 ?

I'm not suggesting any change to normal subnets, where all those issues apply.
I can't see how /64 can be changed for them, without changing a great many
things.
 
> Do you think this change is appropriate in the context of advancing 4291?

I don't think I have suggested text that would lead to a single instruction in
running code being changed.

    Brian

> Do you have implementation reports and are there not interoperability problems here?
> 
> Best regards,
> Ole
> 
> 
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