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

Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Thu, 23 February 2017 05:58 UTC

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From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:58:01 +0900
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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <
albert.e.manfredi@boeing.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?
>
> This shows precisely why it is urgent to update RFC 4291, to correct that
> notion of a fixed IID, before it's too late to set things straight again.
>

Ok, so you're suggesting that we drop the attempt to reclassify RFC 4291,
and instead write a new document to update it? That's a possible course of
action. It would only result in your desired outcome if there was rough
consensus to change the boundary, but as I said before, I'm not going to
oppose that course of action.


>    IPv6 unicast addresses are aggregatable with prefixes of arbitrary
>
   bit-length, similar to IPv4 addresses under Classless Inter-Domain
>    Routing.
>
> Important point. Arbitrary length. That does not mean 64 bits.
>

Nobody is disagreeing with that text. Please refer to the earlier
clarifications in this thread and the discussion in 6man that pointed out
that *routing* based on prefix lengths != 64 is independent from *interface
IDs* being required to be 64 bits long or not.