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

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Thu, 02 March 2017 09:50 UTC

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Subject: Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt
To: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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On 03/02/2017 05:54 AM, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 7:37 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org
> <mailto:nick@foobar.org>> wrote:
> 
>     > Can you explain the difference between your reply and "we've been doing
>     > it for 20 years therefore it must be the right thing to do"?
>     >
>     > The latter is a a) not a technical argument, and b) not a useful
>     > argument if most of that operational knowledge was formed using IPv4.
>     > Given that for most of the 1990s IPv6 had not been designed, much less
>     > operationally deployed, I assume that you do indeed mean IPv4.
> 
>     Kindly stop throwing straw men into this discussion.  This is extremely
>     unhelpful and is not going to result in anything useful.
> 
> 
> Let me rephrase the question. I asked for use cases for longer-than-/64
> prefixes and listed the ones I have seen so far:

I could para-phrase you: because other prefixes longer than 64 are more
than enough in all realistic situations.

Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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