Re: draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00

Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> Fri, 02 June 2017 14:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00
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From: Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com>
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I support it.

There is some additional matters I would like to suggest.

> Thus, a correct implementation of SLAAC must in fact allow for any
> prefix length, with the value being a parameter per interface.  For
> instance, the Interface Identifier length in the recommended (see
> [RFC8064]) algorithm for selecting stable interface identifiers
> [RFC7217] is a parameter, rather than a hardcoded value.

As another example, the linux kernel MUST NOT complain when it receives 
an RA containing a prefix with plen==65 (currently it does).

Alex




Le 02/06/2017 à 16:11, Job Snijders a écrit :
> Hi Working Group,
>
> Please review the below.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Job
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> Christopher Morrow <morrowc@google.com>, Fernando Gont
> <fgont@si6networks.com>, Nick Hilliard <nick@inex.ie>, Geoff Huston
> <gih@apnic.net>, Brian Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>, Chris
> Morrow <morrowc@google.com> Subject: New Version Notification for
> draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00.txt
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> A new version of I-D, draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00.txt has
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> Name:		draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6 Revision:	00 Title:		IPv6
> is Classless Document date:	2017-05-22 Group:		Individual Submission
> Pages:		7 URL:
> https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00.txt
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>
Status: 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6/
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> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00
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> Abstract: Over the history of IPv6, various classful address models
> have been proposed, none of which has withstood the test of time.
> The last remnant of IPv6 classful addressing is a rigid network
> interface identifier boundary at /64.  This document removes the
> fixed position of that boundary for interface addressing.
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