RE: Are privacy extensions, RFC 3041,defined for non global-scope addresses?

Accidentally left original subject: out of original reply; sorry about
that. Comments in-line:

-----Original Message-----
From: ipv6-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
Christian Huitema
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 3:20 AM
To: timbeck04@verizon.net; jspence@native6.com
Cc: ipv6@ietf.org
Subject: RE: (no subject)

Hosts are not supposed to make any distinction between ULA and global
scope addresses. 

-> "not supposed to" seems a bit strong. Section 4.5 of RFC 4193 says
"Application and other higher level protocols CAN (capitalization mine)
treat Local IPv6 addresses in the same manner as other types of global
unicast addresses." Again, in section 1 "-In practice, applications MAY
(capitalization mine) treat these addresses like global scoped
addresses." Also, "In some cases, it is better for nodes and
applications to treat them differently from global unicast addresses."

Hosts autoconfigure ULA addresses if the RA advertises
and ULA prefix. 

-> 'if' being the operative word (they could also be assigned via DHCPv6
or manually).

Thus, hosts that are programmed to generate RFC 3041
addresses for global scope addresses will do the same for ULA.

-> I just read draft-ietf-ipv6-privacy-addrs-v2-04.txt, and see that it
includes references to ULAs. It also refers to the ULA spec as
informative, which was at the time also a draft. If
draft-ietf-ipv6-privacy-addrs-v2-04.txt becomes an RFC (which I expect
it will), thus making obsolete RFC 3041, it is then it would be
appropriate to say hosts "will do the same for ULA". At present (RFC
3041, not RFC 4193) it does not mention ULAs. It's only appropriate to
cite drafts as "works in progress".

->Best Regards,

->Tim Enos
  1Sam16:7

> -----Original Message-----
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Of
> timbeck04@verizon.net
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 8:14 PM
> To: jspence@native6.com
> Cc: ipv6@ietf.org
> Subject: (no subject)
> 
> Hi John, please see my comments in-line:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipv6-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf
Of
> John
> Spence
> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 12:23 PM
> To: ipv6@ietf.org
> Subject: Are privacy extensions, RFC 3041,defined for non global-scope
> addresses?
> 
> 
> I re-read the document, and it certainly focuses on the privacy
> needs of global-scope addresses.  I did not find a place where it
> said it was not defined for ULA or link-local scope addresses.
> 
> -> AFAICS, RFC 3041 deals only with global-scope addresses. The stated
> goals (2-4) explicitly refer to global-scope addresses.
> 
> Is that the intent - not defined for non global-scope addresses?
> Or I am reading that into it?
> 
> -> I think it's reasonable to conclude the mechanism defined in RFC
3041
> is not defined for non global-scope addressses. ULAs to my knowledge
> didn't exist at the time 3041 was written (RFC 3041 in January 2001,
RFC
> 4193 not until October 2005). Even though there is an extant draft
meant
> to update 3041 [draft-ietf-ipv6-privacy-addrs-v2-04.txt], it has yet
to
> become an RFC itself.
> 
> -> If by some stretch RFC 3041 was meant for link-local scope
addresses,
> it seems that would be suboptimal. At least as often as the temp link-
> local unicast address changed, the node would have to (un)subscribe to
the
> corresponding solicited-node multicast group(s). That could lead to
> reduced performance. I'd also wonder about the affect temporary
link-local
> addresses would have on a router's neighbor cache, and/or any
connectivity
> dependent upon the accuracy of cache entries... How might this affect
ND
> itself (not a leading question BTW)?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -> Best regards,
> 
> Tim Enos
> 1Sam16:7
> 
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> John Spence, CCSI, CCNA, CISSP
> Native6, Inc.
> IPv6 Training and Consulting
> jspence@native6.com
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