Re: [v6ops] Scope of Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-6man-ipv6-ula-scope-00.txt)

[Fernando Gont <[e-mail]>]

On 18/2/21 16:46, Templin (US), Fred L wrote:
[...]
>>
>> Hi, Fred,
>>
>> On 18/2/21 16:11, Templin (US), Fred L wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> On 18/2/21 14:37, Templin (US), Fred L wrote:
>>>>> Another aspect I failed to mention is that the use of (H)HITs does not
>>>>> necessarily  mean that all aspects of the HIP protocol must be used. (H)HITs could be
>>>>> used with the AERO/OMNI services instead, for example.
>>>>
>>>> Questions: Are these addresses globally-unique?
>>>
>>> Yes - global uniqueness is a key objective of (H)HIT. Aggregation is not within
>>> scope, however.
>>
>> If that's the case, then, according to RFC4007, they are global addresses.
> 
> I actually think HITs are a bit of a gray area. According to RFC7343, they are
> formed from the GUA prefix 2001:20::/28 but the remaining bits following
> the ::/28 prefix are cryptographically generated and hence non-aggregatable.

BUt according to RFC4007, the scope is defined by the topological span 
where the address is meaningful....


> That means that there is no way to represent a group of them in the routing
> system using any other prefix length than /128.

That's not a requirement when it comes to "scope".



>> (I'd argue that if they cannot be aggregated, that's because they
>> resulting "addresses" are not really topologically-dependent, in which
>> case you might probably argue that they are not addresses in the first
>> place :-) )
> 
> Not in terms of routing across the global Internet, no, because it would not
> scale to inject large numbers of /128's into the global Internet routing system.

The thing is that if they don't represent a location in the network 
topology, they don't seem to qualify as an address, anyway.

An address is supposed to be a topologically-dependent identifier -- 
i.e., to convey information of location ("where?").

Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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