Re: A 3rd try at a proposal for draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07

[David Farmer <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 6:13 AM, Mark Smith <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 7 Mar. 2017 7:47 am, "Alexandre Petrescu"
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> agreed with some of the things that I cut but I have one question.
>
>
> Le 06/03/2017 à 19:46, Lorenzo Colitti a écrit :
> >
> > If we allow the boundary to change, there is a near certainty that
> > too-small subnets *will* be configured in some places,
> >and is IETF a place to make recommendations of making big or small
> > subnets?  Isnt it for the RIRs to make such recommendations?
>
>
> Protocol designers have to make addressing design decisions, such as
> the structure of addresses and special address value semantics. If
> they didn't, then it would only be possible to have a single
> forwarding method and no other semantics embedded in addresses for the
> entire address space.
>
> For example, if the entire address space is chosen to be destination
> based unicast addresses, because only a single choice can be made,
> there will be no possibility of any multicast forwarding, or a special
> purpose loopback address or prefix.
>
> It is also useful if they choose general defaults, so that things can
> work without significant or ideally any configuration.
>
> Imagine the situation of buying a car, and not being able to drive it,
> because none of its tunable parameters had been set to reasonable
> defaults. Mechanics wouldn't have a problem, and may enjoy the
> experience of setting all the parameters to make the car work. The
> rest of wouldn't find buying a car an easy experience at all.
> Mechanics would lobby against making cars (literally) turn-key,
> because they would be making money from setting all the parameters.
>

Following that analogy, I'd agree that most cars have default parameters
and they should, but almost all car actually have parameters, sometime thos
parameters are exposed to the most naive users, not just expert users.
 (e.g. many cars have a Sport/Econo button on the dashboard, and then
almost all cars have tunable parameters under the hood).

Lorenzo seems to be arguing that all cars must not have any tunable
parameters, at least none that are exposed on the dashboard.  And I have to
disagree.


> Regards,
> Mark.
>



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