Re: AUTH48 changes to draft-ietf-6man-rfc6434-bis-09

Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Thu, 20 December 2018 10:14 UTC

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From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 19:14:02 +0900
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Subject: Re: AUTH48 changes to draft-ietf-6man-rfc6434-bis-09
To: Tim Chown <Tim.Chown@jisc.ac.uk>
Cc: Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krishnan@gmail.com>, IETF IPv6 Mailing List <ipv6@ietf.org>, draft-ietf-6man-rfc6434-bis@ietf.org, 6man Chairs <6man-chairs@ietf.org>
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I'm saying there is no need to repeat that message in RFC6434. If we do
repeat it, we should cite 6980.

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 7:10 PM Tim Chown <Tim.Chown@jisc.ac.uk> wrote:

> > On 20 Dec 2018, at 06:34, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 3:21 PM Suresh Krishnan <
> suresh.krishnan@gmail.com> wrote:
> >   There are two proposed (non-editorial) changes to be made to
> draft-ietf-6man-rfc6434-bis-09 during the AUTH48 period and I would like to
> check with the WG if anyone has objections to these changes. I personally
> think that these are reasonable changes to make.  If I do not hear any
> objections by end of day December 27th 2018 (AOE), I will approve these
> changes and send this along the RFC publication path.
> >
> > Change 1) Text change in Section 5.4.
> >
> > Old:
> > Neighbor Discovery SHOULD be supported. RFC 4861 states:
> >
> > New:
> > Neighbor Discovery MUST be supported with the noted exceptions below.
> > RFC 4861 states:
> >
> > Support. This clarifies that the only exceptions for ND are the ones
> written immediately below. That's pretty clearly the intent of the text
> already.
> >
> > Change 2) New text in Section 5.4.
> > ...
> > As per RFC 6980, hosts MUST NOT employ IPv6 fragmentation for sending
> any of the following Neighbor Discovery and SEcure Neighbor Discovery
> messages: Neighbor Solicitation, Neighbor Advertisement, Router
> Solicitation, Router Advertisement, Redirect, or Certification Path
> Solicitation.
> >
> > Why? This new text text places a hard limit on the number and size of
> the options that may be inserted in such a packet, and provides zero
> rationale. That's not good for text in a BCP. I don't see why it needs to
> be included. It's already written in RFC 6980.
>
> Well, RFC 6980 is standards track (not informational) and was published 5
> years ago.  The principal rationale is in the abstract.
>
> Are you aware of implementations that are still fragmenting such ND
> messages?
>
> Are you suggesting we should deprecate RFC 6980. Either we believe it is
> good practice and encourage its adoption, if some implementations do still
> ignore it, or we say we no longer believe its applicable.
>
> Tim
>
>