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

<mohamed.boucadair@orange.com> Fri, 24 February 2017 07:29 UTC

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From: mohamed.boucadair@orange.com
To: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>, Peter Hessler <phessler@theapt.org>
Subject: RE: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt
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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 07:29:49 +0000
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Hi Brian, 

I really hope we will have few words on this topic. 

Pointing to RFC7608 as a general assumption + another one to RFC7421 to clarify that 64 is only a parameter in some schemes would be enough, IMO. 

Cheers,
Med

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : ipv6 [mailto:ipv6-bounces@ietf.org] De la part de Brian E Carpenter
> Envoyé : jeudi 23 février 2017 20:45
> À : Lorenzo Colitti; Peter Hessler
> Cc : IETF IPv6 Mailing List
> Objet : Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt
> 
> On 24/02/2017 03:14, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Nonsense. The exactly correct time to object is when a document is being
> Last Called for Internet Standard status. Until this point in time, IPv6
> has only been a Proposed Standard.
> 
> Actually it has been very educational for me - not in my understanding
> of how IPv6 works, but in showing how badly this particular aspect has
> been
> documented for the last 20 years. Mainly, we've had too many words in the
> addressing architecture. I expect the next version to have fewer words
> on this topic.
> 
>     Brian
> 
> 
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