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

james woodyatt <jhw@google.com> Fri, 17 February 2017 20:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 12:20:01 -0800
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On Feb 16, 2017, at 14:21, james woodyatt <jhw@google.com> wrote:
>> […]
>> The challenge is to find text that enforces the 64-bit boundary policy (ignoring the technical arguments for a moment), and at the same time ensures implementors do the right thing and make their code handle any prefix length. Of course these are interdependent and doing the latter makes it harder to enforce the first.
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> I propose the following:
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>>>> IPv6 unicast routing is based on prefixes of any valid length up to 128 bits [BCP198]. However, as explained in [RFC7421], the Interface ID of unicast addresses is generally required to be 64 bits in length, with exceptions only provided in special cases where expressly recognized in IETF standards track documents.

In response to various comments to this message, I’d like to propose a refinement:

> IPv6 unicast routing is based on prefixes of any valid length up to 128 bits [BCP198]. However, in accordance with the reasoning explained in [RFC7421], the Interface ID part of host interface addresses is generally 64 bits, with exceptions only provided in special cases expressly recognized in IETF standards track documents.

I disagree with the view that advancing RFC 4291 to standards track admits the opportunity to relax the applicability of the 64-bit boundary to only those cases where SLAAC is used. That would be a technical change to the specification that I’m not comfortable promoting at IETF Last Call. In support of that position, I note that the reasoning in RFC 7421 covers cases beyond just SLAAC, and I have previously written about a case not mentioned in RFC 7421, the LOWPAN_IPHC header compression scheme, which is used in various LLN schemes, e.g. IEEE 802.15.4, for compressing IPv6 addresses using the assumption that network prefixes are 64 bits.

For my personal part, I’d prefer to see a clear statement here using RFC 2119 requirements language keywords, but I recognize that consensus probably requires compromise on that point. Hence, the proposed refinement above, which does not use RFC 2119 keywords. (Here is how I would write this with keywords: “IPv6 unicast routing is based on network prefixes that MAY have any valid length up to 128 bits [BCP198]. However, in accordance with the reasoning explained in [RFC7421], the Interface ID part of host interface addresses SHOULD be 64 bits with exceptions only provided in special cases expressly recognized in IETF standards track documents.”)


--james woodyatt <jhw@google.com <mailto:jhw@google.com>>