Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh-insertion-harmful-00.txt

Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@gmail.com> Mon, 14 October 2019 22:16 UTC

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From: Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:16:13 +1100
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Subject: Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh-insertion-harmful-00.txt
To: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>
Cc: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>, 6man <ipv6@ietf.org>
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On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 09:01, Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> wrote:
>
> On 13/10/19 19:19, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> > One comment at the end:
> >
> > On 14-Oct-19 11:48, Mark Smith wrote:
> >> On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 at 21:25, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Brian E Carpenter wrote on 13/10/2019 01:36:

<snip>

> >>
> >> So as Nick said, if the IETF want to have non-interoperable versions
> >> or variants of "IPv6", then they need different version numbers
> >> somewhere or somehow - either minor e.g. 6.1, 6.2, or major e.g.
> >> IPv10.
> >
> > Be careful what you wish for. It would be easy enough to define a
> > (probably hop-by-hop) option for this:
> >       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> >       |   110xxxxx    |   00000001    | IPv6 version  |
> >       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>
> It's easier than that. There's an in IP version field in the IPv{4,6}
> header.
>

While I still think this should be avoided, this would be an "accent"
or "dialect" of IPv6 rather than a different version.

Possibly relevant as an example of something to avoid in terms of
versions and needing sub-versions. English is my first language, and
apparently so is the older gentleman's in this video - not that I can
tell. I can easily understand the interviewer, and he apparently can
understand the older gentleman!

https://twitter.com/alreadytaken74/status/1151597731187777541?s=20

Regards,
Mark.


> Thanks,
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Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh-ins… Brian E Carpenter
Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh-ins… Nick Hilliard
Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh-ins… Brian E Carpenter
Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh-ins… Joel M. Halpern
Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh-ins… Mark Smith
Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh-ins… Nick Hilliard
Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh-ins… Gyan Mishra
Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh-ins… Gyan Mishra
Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh-ins… Brian E Carpenter
Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh-ins… Nick Hilliard
Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh-ins… Mark Smith
Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh-ins… Brian E Carpenter
Re: Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh… li zhenqiang
Re: Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh… Mark Smith
Re: Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh… Mark Smith
Re: Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh… li zhenqiang
Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh-ins… Stewart Bryant
Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh-ins… Mark Smith
Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh-ins… Fernando Gont
Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh-ins… Mark Smith
Re: Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh… Gyan Mishra
Re: I-D Action: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh-ins… Fernando Gont