Re: [spring] Is srv6 PSP a good idea

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Wed, 26 February 2020 20:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [spring] Is srv6 PSP a good idea
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On 26/2/20 16:44, Robert Raszuk wrote:
> Hey Sander,
> 
> No worries ... three IPv6 musketeers have already presented themselves 
> well to this discussion. This was just one more demo of it. No need to 
> apologize - at least me :)
> 
> And while you can call someone's opinion the way you like - the fact 
> that SRv6 builds on top of IPv6 does not make it automatically IPv6 
> extension.
> 
> My perhaps subtle point was that while politically it has been sold like 
> minor IPv6 extension from technical point it does not need to be 
> positioned like one. The sole fact that it reuses the same ethertype 
> does not make it an extension.

Yeah, it's not an extension: it's a major surgery to IPv6, and a major 
change to the IPv6 architecture (nobody would even call it "IPv6 
maintenance").

A number of us wonder how many milliseconds it would have taken for this 
proposal to be shot down if it wasn't being pushed by a big vendor.

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
e-mail: fgont@si6networks.com
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