Re: I-D Action: draft-thubert-6man-ipv6-over-wireless-09.txt

On Tue, 18 May 2021, 07:55 Brian E Carpenter, <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> IMHO this draft now includes some important new material, namely
> definitions of two terms "IP Link" and "IP Subnet" (at
> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thubert-6man-ipv6-over-wireless-09.html#name-terminology
> ). While I'm not sure yet that I completely agree with the text, I think
> the topic is very important, since the previous doctrine has effectively
> been that all "links" behave like Ethernet. And, by the way, the socket API
> incorporates that doctrine.
>

RFC 3819, Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers, also being BCP 89,
would seem to me to be the or close to the IETF's definition of a "link"
since it is providing advice on the design of them:

Abstract

   This document provides advice to the designers of digital
   communication equipment, link-layer protocols, and packet-switched
   local networks (collectively referred to as subnetworks), who wish to
   support the Internet protocols but may be unfamiliar with the
   Internet architecture and the implications of their design choices on
   the performance and efficiency of the Internet.

Regards,
Mark.

> (This is something that gave us quite a lot of angst in ANIMA, especially
> in clarifying the "link" model in the Autonomic Control Plane, since we
> depend on link-local multicast.)
>
> Regards
>    Brian
>
> On 18-May-21 02:45, internet-drafts@ietf.org wrote:
> >
> > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories.
> >
> >
> >         Title           : IPv6 Neighbor Discovery on Wireless Networks
> >         Author          : Pascal Thubert
> >       Filename        : draft-thubert-6man-ipv6-over-wireless-09.txt
> >       Pages           : 25
> >       Date            : 2021-05-17
> >
> > Abstract:
> >    This document describes how the original IPv6 Neighbor Discovery and
> >    Wireless ND (WiND) can be applied on various abstractions of wireless
> >    media.
> >
> >
> > The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-thubert-6man-ipv6-over-wireless/
> >
> > There is also an HTML version available at:
> >
> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thubert-6man-ipv6-over-wireless-09.html
> >
> > A diff from the previous version is available at:
> >
> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-thubert-6man-ipv6-over-wireless-09
> >
> >
> > Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of
> submission
> > until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org.
> >
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> >
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