One size fits all !?! (was: Re: So where have all these new 6man WG people come from?)
Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> Fri, 29 May 2020 17:12 UTC
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From: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
Cc: Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com>, 6MAN <6man@ietf.org>
Subject: One size fits all !?! (was: Re: So where have all these new 6man WG
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To me the main issue is that all the discussions about possible improvements of IPv6 steering headers (all the options out there) do nothing but monopolize precious industry cycles into tactical issues instead of also addressing the strategic problems with IPv6 that go way beyond optimizing steering header encoding. IMHO, it is a misguided dogma to think that RFC8200 128 bit addresses IPv6 is a one-size-fits-all solution not only for what it was built for, the Internet, but also all arbitrary controlled networks - for the infinite future! IoT with IPv6 is an extreme pain (header compression, MTU). Most controlled networks do not even want global addresses (security, segment based app-gateway architectures, ...). 16-bit/32-bit/48-bit address sizes would be highly desirable. Even the 1980'th CLNP network protocol had variable sized addresses. IPv6 has not solved core problems to be even equal to L2 switching: plug routers together, get automatic connectivity, no bother about addresses. CLNP was a lot closer to that goal too. We have no "maintenance-only" constraint in IETF multicast, yet for unicast network layer we only permit maintenance or else you need to create another WG for just a sub-problem. How silly of a structure is that ? And please do not create an IPv6.00001 working group, but think really about another instance of IPv6-NG, but this time backward compatible. And do not let a vendor force the hand of the IETF by developing and deploying proprietary solutions first. We know how bad that works from ongoing work in other layers, as well as historic examples. If we continue to proliferate this "one-size-fits-all" myth, then we are just continuing to extend our own version of a winchester mystery house and kill our industry. On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:30:01AM -0400, Ted Lemon wrote: > On May 29, 2020, at 10:17 AM, Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com> wrote: > > My main point was that a list discussion of this type rarely reaches an acceptable outcome, and that an objective discussion at IETF is normally a better approach. Indeed resolving issues like this is exactly why we meet F2F at IETF. > > My experience with this is more that working group chairs are quite active in moderating discussions during in-person meetings, and really tend not to take responsibility for doing that on the mailing list. This produces the effect you???ve observed, that it???s easier to get consensus in-person than on the list. > > This is unfortunate; if the chairs took a more active role on the list, considering the cost of the time it takes for participants with coding jobs to follow multi-hundred-post repetitive arguments, we would probably do a better job of reaching consensus on-list. > > Of course, this is a lot of work, and it???s sort of understandable that it doesn???t happen; my point is simply that if we want to be an effective _online_ organization, maybe we need to start doing things a bit differently. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > ipv6@ietf.org > Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- --- tte@cs.fau.de
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- RE: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Andrew Alston
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- RE: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Andrew Alston
- Re: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Robert Raszuk
- Re: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Stewart Bryant
- RE: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Ron Bonica
- RE: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Templin (US), Fred L
- Re: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Stewart Bryant
- Re: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Fred Baker
- RE: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Voyer, Daniel
- Re: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Ted Lemon
- Re: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Jared Mauch
- RE: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Ron Bonica
- One size fits all !?! (was: Re: So where have all… Toerless Eckert
- RE: One size fits all !?! (was: Re: So where have… Templin (US), Fred L
- Re: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Greg Mirsky
- Re: One size fits all !?! (was: Re: So where have… Toerless Eckert
- Re: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Greg Mirsky
- RE: One size fits all !?! (was: Re: So where have… Templin (US), Fred L
- Re: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Mark Smith
- Re: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Robert Raszuk
- Re: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Mark Smith
- Re: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Robert Raszuk
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- Re: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Ole Troan
- Re: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Stewart Bryant
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- Re: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Carsten Bormann
- Re: So where have all these new 6man WG people co… Toerless Eckert
- Re: One size fits all !?! (was: Re: So where have… Philip Homburg
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