RE: [atn] [EXTERNAL] Re: Embedding IP information in an IPv6 address (OMNI)

"Templin (US), Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com> Thu, 15 October 2020 16:18 UTC

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From: "Templin (US), Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>
To: Philip Homburg <pch-ipv6-ietf-6@u-1.phicoh.com>, "ipv6@ietf.org" <ipv6@ietf.org>
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Subject: RE: [atn] [EXTERNAL] Re: Embedding IP information in an IPv6 address (OMNI)
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Hi Philip,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: atn [mailto:atn-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Philip Homburg
> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2020 2:52 AM
> To: ipv6@ietf.org
> Cc: Templin (US), Fred L <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>; atn@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Embedding IP information in an IPv6 address (OMNI) 
> 
> >We really do want to define the link-local address format for OMNI interfaces.
> >Too many things depend on every IPv6 interface configuring a unique link-local
> >address. The address format and the means by which it is assured unique is wha
> >t
> >we want to specify for OMNI in an "IPv6-over-foo"-specifc document.
> 
> A few thoughts:
> 1) I think a general system for an IPv6-over-IPv6 overlay network is useful.
>    I don't know enough about OMNI to know if OMNI is the right answer, but
>    some of the concepts in OMNI seem quite useful to me.

Thanks for having a look at OMNI; let me know if there are any questions.

> 2) There is too much code that knows about the link local prefix, that
>    adding a another one is probably not going to fly.
> 3) Traditionally (i.e. since the inception of IPv6) IIDs are 64 bits. So it
>    makes sense for OMNI to conform to that. Embedding the MNP in the IID
>    means that the MNP can be at most 64 bits long. I don't see any big problem
>    with that.

That is the way we had it in older draft versions, but have more recently
changed to using all of the bits 10 thru 128. The thing that inspired the
change was the realization that (not now, but in the not too distant
future) every air, ground, sea and space vehicle on the planet may
need to use OMNI - pedestrians, too. And, at some point, we may find
the /64 limit too restricting.

> 4) However, the main thing standing in the way of using all 118 bits allowed by
>    the fe80::/10 prefix seems to be the *BSD hack of putting an interface
>    number in the zero bits of a link local address. I think that the BSD
>    communities should remove this hack, and we should not effectively let
>    them squat those bits.

I agree.

> 5) I don't see any argument why the MNP should be longer than 64 bits. So
>    point 3 seems the best way to go forward.

When the number of end systems needing MNPs goes up into the
countless billons scale, we may find ourselves hamstrung in the future
if we build in a hard /64 limit today.

Thanks - Fred

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