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

Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Wed, 01 March 2017 15:54 UTC

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From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:53:49 +0900
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Subject: Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 7:19 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:

> > What else? You don't have to list them here, a pointer to a previous
> > message will do.
>
> * established practice since the 1990s, suggesting that any attempt to
> un-ring this particular bell is likely not to succeed.
>

Can you explain the difference between your reply and "we've been doing it
for 20 years therefore it must be the right thing to do"?

The latter is a a) not a technical argument, and b) not a useful argument
if most of that operational knowledge was formed using IPv4. Given that for
most of the 1990s IPv6 had not been designed, much less operationally
deployed, I assume that you do indeed mean IPv4.

The reason why IPv4 addressing practiced don't necessarily apply in IPv6 is
the protocols are completely different in terms of address availability.
Example: in IPv4, CIDR is an absolute necessity in order not to run out of
space. In IPv6, it's not.