[IPv6]Re: Reclaiming fec0::/10 (I-D Action: draft-templin-6man-mla-01.txt)

["Templin (US), Fred L" <[e-mail]>]

Brian, I posted an update that hopefully addresses your points. A quick glance at the
diffs from the previous version should be all that is necessary:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-templin-6man-mla/
https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-templin-6man-mla-04

Thank you - Fred

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2024 7:55 PM
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: [IPv6]Re: Reclaiming fec0::/10 (I-D Action: draft-templin-6man-mla-01.txt)
> 
> There's one statement (well, a whole section) in RFC 3879 that
> is certainly not obsolete:
> 
> "Site is an Ill-Defined Concept"
> 
> RFC 4193 tackles this problem in two statements:
> 
> "The default behavior of exterior routing protocol sessions between
> administrative routing regions must be to ignore receipt of and not
> advertise prefixes in the FC00::/7 block."
> 
> "At the present time, AAAA and PTR records for locally assigned local
> IPv6 addresses are not recommended to be installed in the global DNS."
> 
> Any reassignment of fec0::/10 would need to do the same.
> 
> Regards
>     Brian Carpenter
> 
> On 22-May-24 03:50, Templin (US), Fred L wrote:
> > Hi, regarding this debate about the various IPv6 prefixes that may or may not be used
> > for IPv6 MANET Local Addresses (MLAs), a simple and obvious answer is why not just
> > reclaim the prefix fec0::/10 (formerly site-local and deprecated by RFC3879)?
> >
> > This new draft version therefore requests reinstatement of fec0::/10 in a new role
> > as the top-level prefix for IPv6 MLAs while rendering RFC3879 obsolete.
> >
> > Fred
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2024 8:42 AM
> > To: [e-mail]
> > Subject: I-D Action: draft-templin-6man-mla-01.txt
> >
> > Internet-Draft draft-templin-6man-mla-01.txt is now available.
> >
> >     Title:   IPv6 MANET Local Addresses (MLAs)
> >     Author:  Fred L. Templin
> >     Name:    draft-templin-6man-mla-01.txt
> >     Pages:   7
> >     Dates:   2024-05-21
> >
> > Abstract:
> >
> >     Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs) present an interesting challenge for
> >     IPv6 addressing due to the indeterminant neighborhood properties of
> >     MANET interfaces.  MANET routers must assign an IPv6 address to each
> >     MANET interface that is both unique and routable within the MANET but
> >     must not be forwarded to other networks.  MANET routers must be able
> >     to assign self-generated addresses when there is no infrastructure
> >     present on the link that can delegate topology-relative IPv6
> >     addresses or prefixes.  This document therefore specifies a means for
> >     MANET routers to generate and assign MANET Local Addresses (MLAs).
> >
> > The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-templin-6man-mla/
> >
> > There is also an HTMLized version available at:
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-templin-6man-mla-01
> >
> > A diff from the previous version is available at:
> > https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-templin-6man-mla-01
> >
> > Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at:
> > rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts
> >
> >
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