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

james woodyatt <jhw@google.com> Fri, 24 February 2017 18:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 10:11:03 -0800
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On Feb 24, 2017, at 03:11, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> 
> Let me be more specific then: are you proposing that vendors write code
> to allow or disallow interface subnets which aren't /64 (or /127)? This
> is a binary choice; a vendor needs to choose one way or another.

I don’t know how I can be more clear about this: I insist that general purpose host operating system developers should be expressly permitted to write code that declines to accept subnet prefixes of any length other than /64 on the grounds that these are not used in general IPv6 networking and the successor to RFC 4291 continues to say so.

I know there are operating systems with billions of units in the field today that do exactly this because RFC 4291 and its predecessors have for years given them clear license to do so, and I don’t want to see the publication of I-D.ietf-6man-rfc4291bis as RFC come to remove this license as a side effect of promoting IPv6 to full Standard category.

You want to remove that license? I suppose we can continue discussing that, but I think you should try to do it in a separate draft once IPv6 is officially promoted.


--james woodyatt <jhw@google.com <mailto:jhw@google.com>>