Joel Jaeggli's No Objection on draft-ietf-6man-ug-06: (with COMMENT)

["Joel Jaeggli" <[e-mail]>]

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draft-ietf-6man-ug-06: No Objection

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was: 

So I'm 100% in favor of the goal if this draft however:

  Their aim is to reduce confusion
   while retaining the useful aspects of the "u" and "g" bits in IIDs.

If they're now opaque then their useful attributes is that they are two
bits. the only way to know with any degree of certainty if an ip address
is derived from a mac address if if you have an L2 adjacency with the
device or have insight into how it was provisioned.

The text does not really mollify me with respect to retaining "useful"
aspects of the u and g bits.

brain carpenter said in response:


  Yes, you're right; I think that phrase was written very early in the
  life of the draft, when it seemed like a reasonable statement. After
  several attempts at improving the sentence, I think the best solution
  is to delete it, so the start of Section 5 would simply be:

   This section describes clarifications to the IPv6 specifications that
   result from the above discussion.

     Brian

which I can live with.