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

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Thu, 23 February 2017 08:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard
To: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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On 02/22/2017 09:41 PM, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 5:20 AM, Brian E Carpenter
> <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com <mailto:brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Nobody is saying that /64 isn't extremely widely used where it's
>     appropriate to have a portable fixed length IID. Set the default
>     at 64 and trust operators to change it where they need to.
>     That's realistic.
> 
> 
> As a host developer I strongly oppose that. It will make life easier for
> network operators but make life harder for host OS developers, host
> operators, and host users.
> 
> And it is absolutely inappropriate to change this now in given that the
> /64 boundary has been the standard for the last 20 years. It will break
> deployed code that relies on the current standard. (That includes
> concrete code I can point to that I know runs on tens of millions of
> devices.) That's not acceptable to do in a standard reclassification.

If the above will break your code, then your code is already broken. Fix it.

Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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