RE: I-D Action: draft-thubert-6man-ipv6-over-wireless-09.txt

["Pascal Thubert (pthubert)" <[e-mail]>]

Many thanks Brian;

Though writing code and deploying networks is core to many of us, we also end up teaching, writing papers and publishing informational documents in other bodies such as ETSI. It was during a discussion for an ETSI doc that we realized we were missing those definitions. 

But above there's a need to regain a degree of freedom in how we use links and subnets. The lack of definitions leads to overloading and confusion, which in turn leads to confine us within the commonly understood model that is ethernet.

As we separate the definition of the IP link from that of the lower layer, and separate the definition of subnet from that of IPv4, we regain a degree of freedom that enables us to build IPv6 abstractions over any new medium and build subnets of any size and shape.

Happy to discuss the exact terms of the definitions.

Keep safe,


Pascal


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipv6 <[e-mail]> On Behalf Of Brian E Carpenter
> Sent: lundi 17 mai 2021 23:55
> To: 6man <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Re: I-D Action: draft-thubert-6man-ipv6-over-wireless-09.txt
> 
> Hi,
> 
> IMHO this draft now includes some important new material, namely
> definitions of two terms "IP Link" and "IP Subnet" (at
> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thubert-6man-ipv6-over-wireless-
> 09.html#name-terminology ). While I'm not sure yet that I completely
> agree with the text, I think the topic is very important, since the
> previous doctrine has effectively been that all "links" behave like
> Ethernet. And, by the way, the socket API incorporates that doctrine.
> 
> (This is something that gave us quite a lot of angst in ANIMA,
> especially in clarifying the "link" model in the Autonomic Control
> Plane, since we depend on link-local multicast.)
> 
> Regards
>    Brian
> 
> On 18-May-21 02:45, [e-mail] wrote:
> >
> > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories.
> >
> >
> >         Title           : IPv6 Neighbor Discovery on Wireless Networks
> >         Author          : Pascal Thubert
> > 	Filename        : draft-thubert-6man-ipv6-over-wireless-09.txt
> > 	Pages           : 25
> > 	Date            : 2021-05-17
> >
> > Abstract:
> >    This document describes how the original IPv6 Neighbor Discovery
> and
> >    Wireless ND (WiND) can be applied on various abstractions of
> wireless
> >    media.
> >
> >
> > The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-thubert-6man-ipv6-over-wireless
> > /
> >
> > There is also an HTML version available at:
> > https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thubert-6man-ipv6-over-wireless-
> > 09.html
> >
> > A diff from the previous version is available at:
> > https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-thubert-6man-ipv6-over-wireles
> > s-09
> >
> >
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