Re: Fwd: I-D Action: draft-ietf-6man-ipv6only-flag-03.txt

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

Nick,
On 2018-10-18 05:08, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> Brian E Carpenter wrote on 17/10/2018 03:39:
>> We've attempted in this version to respond to the comments received during WGLC.
>>
>> The most important change is this:
>>        *  Reorganized text about problem statement and applicability
>> We hope the new text makes it clear how the solution relates to other
>> solutions (layer 2 filtering or using a DHCPv4 option).
>>
>> There are a number of other changes:
>>        *  Added note about shortage of flag bits
>>        *  Clarified text about logging configuration error in Section 6
>>        *  Editorial changes.
> 
> Brian
> 
> -03 polishes some peripheral stuff but doesn't substantially address any 
> of the issues I've brought up over the last couple of months.

The authors think that all your points are in fact dealt with in the
text. You may not agree with the way they are dealt with, but we believe
that we have made it clear that the proposed mechanism is an optional
addition to other mechanisms and that it is adequately secure. Whether
it gets implemented and deployed is, as for every proposed extension,
outside our control.

   Brian

> Chairs: none the issues I've raised previously have been substantially 
> addressed in this revision.  Do we need to go through all these issues 
> again, individually, on the mailing list for them to be considered as 
> outstanding in this draft?
> 
> Nick
>