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

<mohamed.boucadair@orange.com> Fri, 24 February 2017 09:01 UTC

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From: mohamed.boucadair@orange.com
To: Peter Hessler <phessler@theapt.org>, Christopher Morrow <christopher.morrow@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt
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Hi Peter, 

Please see inline. 

Cheers,
Med

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : ipv6 [mailto:ipv6-bounces@ietf.org] De la part de Peter Hessler
> Envoyé : vendredi 24 février 2017 09:22
> À : Christopher Morrow
> Cc : james woodyatt; 6man WG
> Objet : Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt
> 
> On 2017 Feb 23 (Thu) at 22:19:24 -0500 (-0500), Christopher Morrow wrote:
> :picking out one messge, not particularly picking ON one message...
> :
> :On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 4:57 PM, james woodyatt <jhw@google.com> wrote:
> :
> :> On Feb 23, 2017, at 05:40, Peter Hessler <phessler@theapt.org> wrote:
> :> >
> :> > Restricting all subnets to The One True Size(tm) of /64 is utterly
> :> > ridiculous.  Sure, that may be an artificial limitation of SLAAC and
> :> > various other technologies, but *those* can have limitations.
> :> >
> :> > Limiting it inside the entire specification is even stupider of an
> idea
> :> > than still supporting Classful networks.
> :> > […]
> :>
> :> It would help if those objecting to the promotion of RFC 4291 to
> Standard,
> :> unless the requirement for subnet prefixes to be generally /64 (except
> :> where noted by standards track documents), would please remember that
> SLAAC
> :> is only one of several technologies dependent on it. That’s why this
> draft
> :> now includes a reference to RFC 7421, which lists a non-exhaustive list
> of
> :> several things that are broken on subnets where prefixes longer than
> /64
> :> are used.
> :>
> :>
> :there seems to be a general sense, in reading the many threads now about
> :this -bis draft, that we can only have one way. In the proposed changed
> :text, ~150 messages back and 2 threads over, there was the callout for
> :applications which require 64bit subnet masks ALONG with "if you really
> :know what you are doing, feel free to use a different subnet mask".
> :
> :I feel like folk are stuck in the 1 or the other camp, and that isn't
> :helpful to this discussion.
> :
> :Why can't we have both?
> :
> 
> I would be perfectly happy if the _IPv6 Protocol_ itself did not have
> any limitations on subnet sizes

[Med] This is BCP198: https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp198.

" The length of an
   IPv6 prefix may be any number from zero to 128" 

, but if SLAAC and other protocols had
> limitations.
> 
> Those limitations can be described in other documents, and won't block
> other usage.

[Med] This is already documented by Brian et al.: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7421 

> 
> 
> :As  to age of text and other things, I look at this -bis and the review
> :here as the final step to making 'ipv6' a real standard and not a
> 'proposed
> :standard' correct? So before we stamp things 'DONE' making sure all eyes
> :are dotted and tees are crossed surely seems sane and rational.
> :
> :-chris
> 
> --
> A day for firm decisions!!!!!  Or is it?
> 
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