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

Christopher Morrow <christopher.morrow@gmail.com> Fri, 24 February 2017 19:36 UTC

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From: Christopher Morrow <christopher.morrow@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 14:36:23 -0500
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Subject: Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt
To: David Farmer <farmer@umn.edu>
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sorry, a clarification request below.

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 1:42 PM, David Farmer <farmer@umn.edu> wrote:

>
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> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 12:11 PM, james woodyatt <jhw@google.com> wrote:
>
>> On Feb 24, 2017, at 03:11, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Let me be more specific then: are you proposing that vendors write code
>> to allow or disallow interface subnets which aren't /64 (or /127)? This
>> is a binary choice; a vendor needs to choose one way or another.
>>
>>
>> I don’t know how I can be more clear about this: I insist that general
>> purpose host operating system developers should be expressly permitted to
>> write code that declines to accept subnet prefixes of any length other than
>> /64 on the grounds that these are not used in general IPv6 networking and
>> the successor to RFC 4291 continues to say so.
>>
>> I know there are operating systems with billions of units in the field
>> today that do exactly this because RFC 4291 and its predecessors have for
>> years given them clear license to do so, and I don’t want to see the
>> publication of I-D.ietf-6man-rfc4291bis as RFC come to remove this license
>> as a side effect of promoting IPv6 to full Standard category.
>>
>> You want to remove that license? I suppose we can continue discussing
>> that, but I think you should try to do it in a separate draft once IPv6 is
>> officially promoted.
>>
>> --james woodyatt <jhw@google.com>
>>
>
> I would not want to make code that does /64 only out of compliance with
> the spec, especially for SLAAC.  I would like to discourage that stance,
> maybe for DHCP, but for sure for manual configuration if that mode is
> provided.  But, I don't see /64 only as a invalid stance for an host OS to
> take.  But neither do I want the spec to disallow non-/64 for DHCP, manual
> configuration, or potential new modes of configuration if we ever get
> there.  I think SLAAC should to remain /64 only. I think DHCP and manual
> configuration should be encourage to support non-/64 options, but even they
> should allow /64 only.
>
>
please restate your last sentence... I think you missed a word or three?


> thanks
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