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

Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> Fri, 02 June 2017 15:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00
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Le 02/06/2017 à 16:36, Alexandre Petrescu a écrit :
> I support it.
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> There is some additional matters I would like to suggest.
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>> 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.
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> As another example, the linux kernel MUST NOT complain when it receives
> an RA containing a prefix with plen==65 (currently it does).

Sorry, I have been just shown that the kernel does not complain when it 
receives a plen==65.

Still, the radvd complains when indicating it should send a 65, or a 63.

Alex

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> Alex
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> Le 02/06/2017 à 16:11, Job Snijders a écrit :
>> Hi Working Group,
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>> Please review the below.
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>> Kind regards,
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>> Job
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>> ----- Forwarded message from internet-drafts@ietf.org -----
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>> Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 04:25:28 -0700 From: internet-drafts@ietf.org
>> To: Job Snijders <job@ntt.net>, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>,
>> 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
>> been successfully submitted by Randy Bush and posted to the IETF
>> repository.
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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/
>> Htmlized:
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00
>> Htmlized:
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/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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