Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt - textual representation of prefixes

Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> Sun, 05 March 2017 12:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt - textual representation of prefixes
To: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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Le 04/03/2017 à 20:29, Brian E Carpenter a écrit :
> On 05/03/2017 01:09, Alexandre Petrescu wrote:
>> Fred,
>>
>> I think the problem I have - agreed, on my side - is that
>> "fe80::/10" is sometimes read as a link-local address, other times
>> as a prefix configured on a computer, other times as just the first
>> 10bits of an LL address.
>
> It's a prefix. ("Point, à la ligne.", comme on dit en francais.)
>
> The problem isn't there. It's that in a router, a prefix is the
> thing you perform longest match against. In a host, it's what you use
> in source address selection, next-hop router selection, and on-link
> determination, and during address auto-configuration. So it has many
> roles.

YEs, it has many roles.  An additional role is that of recognising an
address based on its X leading bits.  Even though the prefix of that
address is not only its X leading bits.

This is in itself confusing.

> And fe80::/x is just a special case. No way round that.

...there are so many special cases: fc00 an fd00 meaning the same, the 
::/0, the 1::1/128 meaning an address _and_ a prefix, and so on.

> Also, it's meaningless without an interface, but we don't write
> fe80::/10%eth0.

I think that %iface should be mandatory in notation of LLs.  Otherwise 
there can be collision.

Alex

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> Brian
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