Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

[Lorenzo Colitti <[e-mail]>]

An unadopted draft does not an implementation (or a deployment!) make.


On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 4:05 AM, Tim Chown <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 1 Jun 2013, at 13:42, Owen DeLong <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> On Jun 1, 2013, at 5:58 AM, Ted Lemon <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>  On May 31, 2013, at 10:47 PM, Owen DeLong <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> What solutions exist today that provide for the home of the future where
> there are, in fact, multiple levels of routers many of which are managing
> routers underneath them with multiple links attached?
>
>
> There's a fairly ugly DHCPv6 PD binary splitting solution that's actually
> been implemented, which is not efficient because it does sub-delegations of
> >/64 prefixes to internal routers.   There's the better PD solution that
> lets the router that got the initial delegation sub-delegate /64s
> throughout the home, which results in efficient use of the initial prefix.
>   And there's delegation over ZOSPF, for which there is running code that
> the implementors seem to think works, and which is also efficient in its
> use of prefixes.   This is a solved problem.
>
>
> URLs to documentation of any/all of the above?
>
> The only one I was aware of was the first one you mentioned, which, while
> running is fairly primitive in its capabilities.
>
> The second one sounds like it gets pretty dysfunctional if you have
> downstream routers with downstream routers.
>
> I haven't even heard of the third one, so absent some reference, I can't
> really comment.
>
>
> zOSPF-based:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-autoconfig-00
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-arkko-homenet-prefix-assignment-04
>
> DHCP-based:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-grundemann-homenet-hipnet-01
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-baker-homenet-prefix-assignment-01
>
> See also
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-homenet-arch-08#page-25
>
> There are at least two interoperable implementations of the zOSPF solution
> using different platforms (bird and quagga)
>
> Tim
>
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