Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard

Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> Wed, 22 February 2017 10:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard
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In message <3af95cc0-d336-f0be-bd42-aeb2319452ad@gmail.com>, Alexandre Petrescu writes:
> 
> 
> Le 22/02/2017 =E0 04:00, Lorenzo Colitti a =E9crit :
> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Job Snijders <job@ntt.net
> > <mailto:job@ntt.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     Those "thousands of interconnections" facilitate the communication
> >     between millions of those hosts.
> >
> >
> > But the configuration cost and management overhead is not proportional
> > to the hosts that are served by those interconnections, it is
> > proportional to the number of interconnections. A 10x100G peering
> > interconnection that serves X million hosts is one interface that has to
> > be managed.
> >
> >     Have you considered that not all interconnections are equal? The
> >     type of interconnection I am mainly (but not exclusively) referring
> >     to is the interconnection between Autonomous Systems to facilitate
> >     the exchange of routing information using BGP-4. Autoconfiguration
> >     plays no role here, everything is configured explicitly. I'd argue
> >     that the use case is hardly comparable with a residential or mobile
> >     connection.
> >
> >
> > Those use cases are very well served by /127 for PNIs and /64s for
> > Internet exchanges. What's left?
> >
> >     As pointed out in this thread, real networks use all kinds of prefix
> >     lengths. Also, one doesn't renumber everything every time a new
> >     document comes out - you stick to things that work for you.
> >
> >
> > As discussed above, most links use /64.
> >
> >     Some vendors in this thread have admitted to strive to make things
> >     work with any prefix length, why is there then still a discussion
> >     that people must use /64 - when both vendors and users are not
> >     always doing so, for good reasons?
> >
> >
> > You're forgetting about host operating system developers and host users,
> 
> I think you talk about users of hosts like smartphones, situated at the
> edge of the Internet, not in the core.
> 
> In straightforward IP addressing architectures ("hierarchical"), the
> prefixes of routes towards the edges are naturally shorter than that 64:
> e.g. prefix /60 for site, /63 for building, /64 for office desk.

In a straight forward addressing architecture a site gets a /48 and 
sub entities request the numbers of /64's they need and it uses a
autoconfiguring routing protocol for routing traffic.   Homes and
most sites don't need heirachical routing.  65000 routing entries
should be able to be handled even by a $15 router.

> In practice these hierarchical architectures are ideals hard to
> implement. Because some hosts even in the core use SLAAC/Ethernet/64,
> because edges expand, etc.
> 
> This makes that people need prefix lenghts of routes to lead to a
> particular /64 carved out of some other prefix, instead of aggregating.
> This leads to waste of publically routable space, or to the use of ULA
> prefixes, or NAT66 prefixes, which have inconvenients too.
> 
> Alex

Or you just requests the prefixed you need and use a routing protocol.

 
> > both of which benefit substantially to having a subnet size that is
> > always the same and never runs out of addresses.
> >
> >     I'm confident this discussion will eventually resolve itself and
> >     conclude that /64 is not the only valid prefix length, rigid
> >     positions rarely are attainable. Water can flow or it can crash.
> >
> >
> > Even if you're right, the place to have that discussion is not on this
> > document.
> >
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