Re: Additional Documentation Prefixes (was Re: AD Evaluation : draft-ietf-6man-ra-pref64-06)

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From: Suresh Krishnan <Suresh@kaloom.com>
To: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
CC: Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@gmail.com>, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>, IETF IPv6 Mailing List <ipv6@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: Additional Documentation Prefixes (was Re: AD Evaluation : draft-ietf-6man-ra-pref64-06)
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> On Nov 3, 2019, at 5:47 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 04-Nov-19 11:34, Mark Smith wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, 06:33 Brian E Carpenter, <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com <mailto:brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>    On 04-Nov-19 06:18, Michael Richardson wrote:
>>> 
>>> Suresh Krishnan <Suresh@kaloom.com <mailto:Suresh@kaloom.com>> wrote:
>>    ...
>>>      >> I'd also like to have three or four additional IPv6 documentation prefixes,
>>>      >> plus some documentation space from ULA-R and ULA-C.
>>> 
>>>      > What is ULA-R? Did you mean ULA-L? If so, it would be a pain to reserve
>>>      > something now since we also need to update RFC4193 to make sure that
>>>      > the Random “Global ID”s will not collide with the reserved prefixes. If
>>>      > ULA-C does take off, this would be a good idea to do something like
>>>      > this.
>>> 
>>> I guess L=1 is why you call it ULA-L. I have known it as ULA-Random.
>>> We are both talking about RFC4193 though.  So such a document would need to
>>> update RFC4193.
>> 
>>    I think this is a bad and pointless idea. Pointless because it is 100% OK
>>    to use any RFC4193 prefix as an example, since by definition it will never
>>    be used on the Internet, and the chance of collision on a given ULA site
>>    is 1 in 2**40 (and who cares anyway?). Bad because it means that millions
>>    of existing boxes that can generate ULA prefixes would be non-conformant
>>    and, seriously, is any vendor going to update date their firmware for this?
>> 
>> 
>> I redacted my ULA in examples in a presentation I did recently. That made it impossible to type in and for somebody to duplicate.
>> 
>> If the goal is ensure people can't try to use these example addresses on real networks, then perhaps using invalid addresses in the document with a note that they're examples and invalid on purpose is a better idea.
>> 
>> For example, using non-hexidecimal letters, with a note about them being substitutes for 'a' through 'f'.
>> 
>> E.g.
>> 
>> 2001:db8:xxxx:yyyy::zzz1
>> 
> 
> Yes, that makes sense, and could be applied to link-local and RFC1918
> addresses too. It's a much less fiddly solution.

+1. Agree that this could be a good solution, I think the idea is to use not very realistic prefixes that people can just cut and paste into real configurations.

Thanks
Suresh