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

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Fri, 24 February 2017 03:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard
To: David Farmer <farmer@umn.edu>, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
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On 02/23/2017 07:43 PM, David Farmer wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:16 PM, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com
> <mailto:lorenzo@google.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Help he understand, then. There is widely-deployed code that assumes
>     that the interface ID is 64 and does not work on anything other than
>     64 bit prefix lengths. Currently that code is correct on all unicast
>     space. If you change RFC 4291, won't that code be incorrect?
> 
> 
> OK, what if we said something like this;
> 
>    IPv6 unicast routing is based on prefixes of any valid length up to
>    128 [BCP198]. However, all implementations of IPv6 are REQUIRED to
>    support an IID length of 64 bits, other IID lengths are OPTIONAL.
>    Subnet prefixes of /64 are RECOMMENDED for general purpose use,
>    subnet prefixes of /127 are RECOMMENDED for point-to-point router
>    links [RFC6164], other subnet prefix lengths are NOT RECOMMENDED,
>    as their use could be incompatible with some implementations of IPv6.
>    The rationale for the 64 bit boundary in IPv6 addresses can be found
>    in [RFC7421].

I'd remove a few sentences here, as in:

   IPv6 unicast routing is based on prefixes of any valid length up to
   128 [BCP198]. Subnet prefixes of /64 are RECOMMENDED for general
   purpose use, subnet prefixes of /127 are RECOMMENDED for point-
   to-point router links [RFC6164]. The rationale for the 64 bit
   boundary in IPv6 addresses can be found in [RFC7421].

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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