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

Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Fri, 24 February 2017 00:46 UTC

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From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 09:46:24 +0900
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Subject: Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:

> This horse bolted 20 years ago and the shed door is long rotted.
> Everyone understands that there are several situations where /64 is
> mandatory, but it's terribly silly for the IETF to pretend that anyone
> is going to pay the slightest attention to a requirement of this form.
> They won't: vendors won't and operators won't, so we need to stop
> pretending that this is a useful approach on this point.
>

I think you're only looking at half of the picture. Perhaps router vendors
and router operators won't pay attention to a requirement of this form, and
most haven't - though I will note that there are major router architectures
that have different performance and cost characteristics for /0-/64 and
/65-/127. (Anyone who claims that that is silly because classful addressing
is bad should think about the fact that routing is not magic, but based on
the laws of phisics, and bear in mind that routing on a >/64 prefix takes
twice the memory, and fast memory is very, very expensive.)

But even more importantly - even if router vendors and operators ignore
this requirement, host software and host implementations can rely - and, in
the 20 years since this was standardized, have been written to rely - on
this standard to provide useful functionality to their users.

If we remove the 64-bit boundary we are actually changing the balance
between the needs of network operators and host operators (a.k.a "users").
That's a big change, and it's not something we should do just because
"classful addressing is bad". I don't want a future where my ISP gives my
home network or my mobile device a /120 and I have to count myself lucky
because it's better than having a single IPv4 address.