Re: [ipwave] 118

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Tue, 16 April 2019 20:51 UTC

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To: 神明達哉 <jinmei@wide.ad.jp>, Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com>
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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [ipwave] 118
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On 17-Apr-19 04:30, 神明達哉 wrote:
> At Tue, 16 Apr 2019 12:58:01 +0200,
> Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com <mailto:alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>> > Not quite, because it also says
>> >
>> > "  An Interface ID SHOULD be of length
>> >     64 decimal for all types of IPv6 addresses.  In the particular case
>> >     of IPv6 link-local addresses, the length of the Interface ID MAY be
>> >     118 decimal."
>> >
>> > which conflicts with RFC4291.
>>
>> True.  I forgot that 118.  Thank you for pointing to it.
>>
>> Remark, it says MAY, not MUST.
>>
>> Do you stronly disagree with 118?  I can remove the phrase containing
>> it, if so.  I can also remove the entire cited text altogether, such
>> that to be silent about the length of the Interface ID.
> 
> (Speaking for myself who just happenned to notice it - I overlooked this
> 118, too).  I'd say it's more consistent with the removal of "fe80::/10"
> if we simply remove "In the particular case of IPv6 link-local
> addresses..." sentence.  If it really has to stay here, it will
> inevitably need to be an update to RFC4291 and need to pass that high
> bar (quite likely delaying the publication substantially, if not
> making it fail).  Unless that's absolutely necessary for this protocol
> specification, it's much safer not to discuss that in this document.

Agreed.

    Brian