Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard

Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Wed, 22 February 2017 03:00 UTC

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From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 12:00:18 +0900
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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard
To: Job Snijders <job@ntt.net>
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Job Snijders <job@ntt.net> wrote:

> Those "thousands of interconnections" facilitate the communication between
> millions of those hosts.
>

But the configuration cost and management overhead is not proportional to
the hosts that are served by those interconnections, it is proportional to
the number of interconnections. A 10x100G peering interconnection that
serves X million hosts is one interface that has to be managed.

Have you considered that not all interconnections are equal? The type of
> interconnection I am mainly (but not exclusively) referring to is the
> interconnection between Autonomous Systems to facilitate the exchange of
> routing information using BGP-4. Autoconfiguration plays no role here,
> everything is configured explicitly. I'd argue that the use case is hardly
> comparable with a residential or mobile connection.
>

Those use cases are very well served by /127 for PNIs and /64s for Internet
exchanges. What's left?

As pointed out in this thread, real networks use all kinds of prefix
> lengths. Also, one doesn't renumber everything every time a new document
> comes out - you stick to things that work for you.
>

As discussed above, most links use /64.

Some vendors in this thread have admitted to strive to make things work
> with any prefix length, why is there then still a discussion that people
> must use /64 - when both vendors and users are not always doing so, for
> good reasons?
>

You're forgetting about host operating system developers and host users,
both of which benefit substantially to having a subnet size that is always
the same and never runs out of addresses.

I'm confident this discussion will eventually resolve itself and conclude
> that /64 is not the only valid prefix length, rigid positions rarely are
> attainable. Water can flow or it can crash.
>

Even if you're right, the place to have that discussion is not on this
document.