Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt and rfc2464bis

Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> Tue, 28 March 2017 15:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt and rfc2464bis
To: otroan@employees.org
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From: Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com>
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Ole,

With all due respect.

Who do you think I should contact off-line?

I do not agree with rfc2464bis saying:
> 5.  Link-Local Addresses
>
>    The IPv6 link-local address [I-D.ietf-6man-rfc4291bis] for an
>    Ethernet interface is formed by appending the Interface Identifier,
>    as defined above, to the prefix FE80::/64.

I have not seen a resolution to it.

You may qualify my messages as being too many, but all I am trying to 
say is to clarify it.

Yours,

Alex

Le 28/03/2017 à 08:53, otroan@employees.org a écrit :
> Alexandre,
>
> I think we have spent enough time on this subject now.
> If you want to discuss this further I suggest you do that off-line.
>
> Best regards,
> Ole
>
>> On 28 Mar 2017, at 07:46, Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Le 28/03/2017 à 02:02, Simon Hobson a écrit :
>>> Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Actually one can wonder why RFC writers decided to write fe80::/10
>>>> when they could have written fe81::/10 equaly well.  Or even
>>>> fe90::/10 or febf::/10.  All these designate the same 10bits - the
>>>> mask 1111 1110 10.
>>>
>>> I thought this was answered a good few messages ago.
>>
>> I did not see?
>>
>>> It is customary to always write the "lowest value that fits"
>>
>> I did not know it was customary?  Maybe it should be documented.
>>
>> As opposed to IPv4 decimal notation, in IPv6 hexa it's very difficult to
>> compare visually two IPv6 addresses, and tell which is lower value.
>>
>>> - ie the one where all the non-prefix bits are zero. So fe80::/10
>>> fits - all the bits after the first 10 are zero fe81::/10 does not
>>> fit - when you mask off the non-prefix bits you get a different
>>> value
>>
>> Well, makes sense.
>>
>> But from this to say that LL addresses are _only_ those that start with
>> fe80 there is a long way.
>>
>>> So while in terms of maths, after doing the masking you get the same
>>> result, by not applying the "all host bits are zero" rule - you have
>>> introduced confusion for humans.
>>
>> Ok.
>>
>> But humans introduce further confusion when mandating these host bits to
>> be 0.
>>
>> These bits are not necessarily 0 - they can be whatever.
>>
>> That is a need to say 'whatever' - not necessarily '0'.
>>
>>> As pointed out, 172.17.0.0/12 might make as much sense as
>>> 172.16.0.0/12 IFF you ignore this feature. Applying the mask to
>>> 172.17.0.0/12 gives you non-zero host bits -
>>
>> A-ha!  I did not know that.
>>
>>> hence why we don't use that. It's all to do with consistency and
>>> avoidance of confusion. And we need as much of that as we can - I
>>> know plenty of supposedly network capable people who cannot
>>> understand the concept of 172.16.1.0/23 being a valid IP address !
>>
>> But there should be a way to say that 172.16.0.0/12 is just one valid example, not the only one.
>>
>> That 172.17.0.0/12 is also a private address.
>>
>> Just like when one types 'ls abc*' vs typing 'ls abcd'.
>>
>> That is the need.
>>
>>> But to be frank, I still can't see what the proposal is about - just
>>> what use case does it solve ?
>>
>> Well, the discussion is issued from the following observations:
>> - rfc4291bis calls it fe80::/10 with a 64bit IID, whereas rfc2464bis
>>  calls it fe80::/64 - which is right?
>> - BSD code recognizes an LL address by its 10 first bits only (not by
>>  64): it drops an ND message if not convinced.  That is reason enough
>>  to visit the problem closely.
>> - much f2f conversation calls ULA an "fd00" and an LL an "fe80".  This
>>  goes very far when assigning addresses on interfaces.  Few if any
>>  assign an "fe81" or an "fc00", although both are correct LL and ULA
>>  respectively.
>>
>> And I think it is so because of the textual representation of IPv6
>> addresses.
>>
>> Alex
>>
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