Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Tue, 28 February 2017 19:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt
To: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>, David Farmer <farmer@umn.edu>
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On 01/03/2017 05:29, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
...
>> We have defined this as a parameter not as a constant.
>>
> 
> I really don't understand this statement. How can you say that it's a
> parameter, given that every RFC that has been published on this topic
> starting from 1998 states that (most) IIDs are 64 bits long?

Yes, I think we have a long tradition of expressing this badly, and now
is a chance to get it right. It's clear at the point where it's
introduced in RFC4291 that it's a floating boundary:

  "A slightly sophisticated host (but still rather simple) may
   additionally be aware of subnet prefix(es) for the link(s) it is
   attached to, where different addresses may have different values for
   n:

   |          n bits               |           128-n bits            |
   +-------------------------------+---------------------------------+
   |       subnet prefix           |           interface ID          |
   +-------------------------------+---------------------------------+"

but later in the same document we state that (128-n) == 64. That is
inconsistent; what we're trying to do now is fix that inconsistency
in a way that is *also* consistent with running code, SLAAC, and the
newly important privacy issues that require long, unpredictable IIDs.

> Most of the code in most implementations treated this a parameter, but
> there is code that just takes the 64-bit length at face value, and is well
> within its rights to do so, because it's specified by the standard.

And that's our fault, all the way back to RFC3513. (RFC2373 was more
cautious.)

On 27/02/2017 23:22, Alexandre Petrescu wrote:
...
> Has the option of removing this 4291 paragraph altogether been
> considered (instead of improving it)?

This idea has some merit. Fixing a parameter doesn't really belong in
the architecture document. However, I think we've painted ourselves
into a corner here, so we have to say something.

     Brian