Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt

Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Thu, 23 February 2017 14:14 UTC

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From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 23:14:35 +0900
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Subject: Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt
To: Peter Hessler <phessler@theapt.org>
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:40 PM, Peter Hessler <phessler@theapt.org> wrote:

> As an implementation, OpenBSD will never add such a crazy thing.  And
> you know that many other implementations won't do so either.
>
> I strongly oppose this draft.
>

Bit late to object to that text now I'm afraid.

A good time to object would have been 19 years ago when the text you object
to became the standard:

4291bis-07 (currently under discussion):

   IPv6 unicast routing is based on prefixes of any valid length up to
   128 [BCP198].  For example, [RFC6164] standardises 127 bit prefixes
   on inter-router point-to-point links.  However, the Interface ID of
   all unicast addresses, except those that start with the binary value
   000, is required to be 64 bits long.  The rationale for the 64 bit
   boundary in IPv6 addresses can be found in [RFC7421]

RFC 4291 (February 2006):

   For all unicast addresses, except those that start with binary value
   000, Interface IDs are required to be 64 bits long and to be
   constructed in Modified EUI-64 format.

RFC 3513 (April 2003):

   For all unicast addresses, except those that start with binary value
   000, Interface IDs are required to be 64 bits long and to be
   constructed in Modified EUI-64 format.

RFC 2373 (July 1998):

   In a number of the format prefixes (see section 2.4) Interface IDs
   are required to be 64 bits long and to be constructed in IEEE EUI-64
   format [EUI64].