Re: draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00

Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Tue, 13 June 2017 08:30 UTC

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From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 17:29:45 +0900
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Subject: Re: draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00
To: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Brian E Carpenter <
brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Why does N need to be set on a per-link-type basis?
>
> It doesn't *need* to be. But SLAAC by design assumes that it is
> set per link-type; that is architectural flexibility which is
> removed by RFC4291, which IMHO is a bad message to send to the future.
>
> I think this is the main reason the IESG sent draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis
> back to us


You're not serious, are you?

The IESG sent back draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis because there was clear lack
of consensus, not for any architectural reason.