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

Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Wed, 01 March 2017 15:56 UTC

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From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:56:34 +0900
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Subject: Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt
To: Greg Hankins <ghankins@mindspring.com>
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Yes, there are implementations that rely on the fact that IIDs are
specified to be 64 bits to provide useful functionality. And they are
widely deployed.

I have no objection to a router accepting a /117 prefix length when
configuring an IPv6 address. I do object to making host code that relies on
/64 noncompliant.

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 7:44 PM, Greg Hankins <ghankins@mindspring.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 06:59:26PM +0900, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Greg Hankins <ghankins@mindspring.com>
> wrote:
> >> We can never change our
> >> implementation to be compliant with the proposed text because of the
> >> operational havoc it would create for our customers.  It's simply
> >> infeasible
> >> to impose these kind of addressing restrictions.
> >
> >The word "change" is incorrect here, because the standard that was current
> >when Nokia wrote its implementation had pretty much exactly the same
> >requirement. (The reason for that is that *all* past standards have
> >contained this language except for RFC 1884, which specified /80, which
> >won't work in the real world.)
> >
> >Could you reword your position to take into account that fact?
>
> Call it whatever you want, the point again is that we have customers who
> have
> deployed whatever addressing architecture meets their requirements, and we
> can't force them to change it.  It's their network and their address space.
>
> You are correct that other standards had the same requirement, which my
> current and all of my former employer's* implementations also ignored for
> the same reasons that have been mentioned.  This is a good opportunity
> for the -bis revision to reflect the state of operational deployments that
> have proven the assumptions in the original standard to be impractical.
>
> Is anyone aware of any implementations that comply with this requirement?
>
> Greg
>
> * Riverstone, Force10, Brocade
>
> --
> Greg Hankins <ghankins@mindspring.com>
>