Re: EXPERIMENTAL Variable SLAAC draft-mishra-6man-variable-slaac

[Alexandre Petrescu <[e-mail]>]

Le 17/12/2020 à 17:28, David Farmer a écrit :
> +1, more inline.
> 
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 9:01 AM Philip Homburg 
> <[e-mail] 
> <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
> 
>> The experimental is to test this 3GPP  use case to change  the IPv6
>> architecture RFC 4291 to eliminate 64 bit boundary.  As the removal
>> solution is the experimental using the sysctl to for slaac to allow
>> variable length prefixes to perform a study of impact to endpoints
> using
>> sysctl for v2v only thus would not impact other devices.  This
> would be a
>> controlled method of testing variable slaac.
> 
> Changing RFC 4191 has been debated for a long time, and there
> doesn't seem to be any consensus that changing the 64-bit boundary
> is something that should be done.
> 
> It could be that an experiment provides input in a discussion, but
> in this case there seems to be no link between the discussion and the
>  experiment.
> 
> So the only outcome of the experiment could be that a change that 
> violates one of the core standards of IPv6 would technically work. 
> However that doesn't seem to be in dispute.
> 
> Obviously anybody can just experiment without an RFC or endorsement 
> from the IETF.
> 
> 
> Does anyone really doubt that the 64-bit boundary could be changed
> if there was a consensus to do so?

I am not asking to change the 64bit boundary.

If one is really convinced by the necessity of the 64bit boundary then I
would like to invite to promote to the mobile operators the delivery of
/56 to the end user.

Are you convinced by the necessity of the 64bit boundary?

Alex


  I don't think so. The argument has
> always been it shouldn't be changed, not that it can't be changed,
> if we wish to do so. I don't believe there is anything a formal 
> experiment can tell us we don't already know. This is merely an 
> attempt to get the camel's nose into the tent. NO, an experiment 
> isn't necessary!
> 
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