Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-6man-6lobac-01.txt

[Kerry Lynn <[e-mail]>]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for your comment.

I was following the method of generating IIDs used by 6LoWPAN [RFC 4944].

I note that RFC 4291 states in section 2.5.1
"For all unicast addresses, except those that start with the binary value
000, Interface IDs are required to be 64 bits long and to be constructed
in Modified EUI-64 format."

Technically, locally assigned MS/TP IIDs could be shorter than 64 bits.
However, if EUI-64s become popular for MS/TP devices there might
then be a situation where some devices have 64-bit IIDs and others have
shorter.  I am also not sure how a numbering scheme that uses prefixes
longer than 64 bits would work in the general case (given that many
other data links use 64-bit IIDs).

-K-

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Alexandru Petrescu
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> HEllo,
>
> A side note about this.  It is not a request for modification, just a
> thought.
>
> I wonder why do we want the Interface Identifier to be of length 64 when
> the MS/TP node address seems to be 8bit only.
>
> In a sense, it may be because SLAAC over Ethernet (802) is used to use
> 64bit IIDs.
>
> But in another sense, this is not Ethernet and hence the IID could be of
> length 8bit of MS/TP, right?
>
> I am asking this because of other contexts (non-MS/TP) whereby the
> link-layer addresses are shorter than 48bit and yet the Interface ID is
> still 64bit, "to make SLAAC work".
>
> In some contexts too, the ISP delivers a 64bit prefix to a leaf network
> and if that IID is almost always 64bit it means that it's hard next to
> impossible to form sub-prefixes of that ISP 64bit prefix and still use
> SLAAC.
>
> In a sense, it would be better to define the IIDs of MS/TP (or other
> link) to be of length 8, allow the ISP to assign 64bit prefix to leaf
> network, and let the gateway in between to derive prefixes out of that
> 64bit (up to 120) and still use SLAAC.
>
> This is just a thought, not a request to modify.
>
> Yours,
>
> Alex
>
> Le 13/03/2012 12:47, Kerry Lynn a écrit :
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> The main changes to the WG version of this draft are: a) tweaks that
>> resulted from the initial public review of the BACnet MS/TP change
>> proposal, the most significant being the COBS encoding of data and
>> data crc fields to remove preamble sequences; and b) addition of two
>> informative appendices to provide code examples for the data crc and
>> COBS encoder/decoder.  These appendices are insufficient to implement
>> the data link, but are provided e.g. for those writing Wireshark
>> dissectors or otherwise wanting more detail about over- the-wire
>> format.
>>
>> I'd like to solicit specific comments on what is needed to move this
>> draft forward - IOW, what would you like to see added in order for
>> this draft to be ready for WGLC?
>>
>> For anyone who'd like to view the details of data link state
>> machines, etc., I can provide the relevant clause (9) of the ASHRAE
>> 135-2010 (BACnet) spec, as well as the MS/TP change proposal
>> (Addendum an).
>>
>> Thanks, -K-
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:06 PM,<[e-mail]>  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
>>> directories. This draft is a work item of the IPv6 Maintenance
>>> Working Group of the IETF.
>>>
>>> Title           : Transmission of IPv6 over MS/TP Networks
>>> Author(s)       : Kerry Lynn Jerry Martocci Carl Neilson Stuart
>>> Donaldson Filename        : draft-ietf-6man-6lobac-01.txt Pages
>>> : 20 Date            : 2012-03-12
>>>
>>> MS/TP (Master-Slave/Token-Passing) is a contention-free access
>>> method for the RS-485 physical layer that is used extensively in
>>> building automation networks.  This document describes the frame
>>> format for transmission of IPv6 packets and the method of forming
>>> link-local and statelessly autoconfigured IPv6 addresses on MS/TP
>>> networks.
>>>
>>>
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