Re: [v6ops] comment on draft-liu-v6ops-ula-usage-analysis

["Liubing (Leo)" <[e-mail]>]

Hi Fred,

Thanks for your detailed explain. It is very useful information.
I'll consider to include it in the next version.

Best regards,
Bing

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Baker (fred) [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 7:33 PM
> To: Liubing (Leo)
> Cc: Brian E Carpenter; [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: [v6ops] comment on draft-liu-v6ops-ula-usage-analysis
> 
> 
> On Nov 12, 2013, at 5:55 PM, Liubing (Leo) <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, Fred
> >
> >> </chair>
> >>
> >> I'm told that it goes beyond that. There are at least three
> >> "directions" in the
> >> split:
> > [Bing] Did you mean you are told from some real deployment, or told from
> the ULA draft?
> 
> I am on the board of a company that produces a product that is used in these
> configurations. One of the engineers told me it is a requirement his
> customers present him with. Today, that is generally IPv4, not IPv6, so I can't
> comment on ULAs, only extrapolate. I was commenting on the DNS
> configuration.
> 
> >>   - inside, where internal-only names are advertised, might use an
> >> internal-only prefix, and even "outside" names might have different
> >> servers and different addresses.
> >>   - outside, where internal-only names are not advertised
> >>   - partner, which is "outside" plus some names made accessible to
> >> the partner, and may imply some form of b2b routing as well.
> > [Bing] Say if ULAs are used for b2b private routing, in the "partner" case,
> does it means the b2b ULAs are stored in the outside DNS, so that the
> partners could get the ULAs through public DNS, and access to the ULAs
> through private routing?
> 
> In the particular configuration, as I understand what the engineer told me,
> "inside", "outside", and in the "partner" case, the identity of the partner, are
> attributes in the underlying database. The software looks at the request,
> determines what data should be included in the response, and includes it.