Re: the race to the bottom problem

[Ca By <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 1:55 AM <[e-mail]> wrote:

> > RA prefix information can be set to any number between 0 and 128
> >
> > But, 3gpp enshrined it to be 64
> >
> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6459#section-5.2
> >
> > Let’s change and and make it so the UE to slice up a prefix into
> multiple downstream /64s
>
> I suspect you find the RA mechanism which assigns prefixes to a link
> simpler to use because that configuration information is tied to the
> lifetime of that particular link.
> That premise does not hold when you are delegating address space to a
> network behind that link.
>
> If you were taking that approach, it would imply ephemeral addressing and
> flash renumbering.
>

Yes, that is the case of the deployment today. I am simply looking to give
< 64 instead of = 64, that is an improvement that is achievable


> Simple and cheap on the operator side likely implies complex and costly on
> the end-user side.
> That might not be a good tradeoff. There are many more end-user sites than
> operators.
>
> Best regards,
> Ole