Re: [v6ops] disconnected homenets (was: #2 Regarding isolated networks)

[Alexandru Petrescu <[e-mail]>]

Old email, sorry.

Le 28/05/2014 23:24, Mark ZZZ Smith a écrit :
[...]
> The use case I like to imagine is a home user streaming a video from
> their NAS to their TV over their internal network. That should use
> ULAs so that a failure of their Internet connection/Global addressing
> has no impact on watching their movie. If the movie failed because
> the Internet connection/global addressing failed, that user will call
> the ISP's helpdesk. But why should it fail! The home users internal
> network is fine, it is only external connectivity that has failed.

I hope this requirement is considered in the homenet architecture 
discussion.

Too often the in-home Internet-disconnected network can not work internally.

Alex

>
> People might argue that enterprise networks are different and they
> are - they're simpler! Enterprise networks have technical staff on
> hand that can troubleshoot networks and resolve faults. If you can
> make IPv6 work seamlessly for home networks and their non-technical
> "operators", you've solved the harder problem. Since enterprise
> networks also value the same things home networks do - seamless
> operation, robustness against failure, stable internal connectivity,
> you've solved most of the enterprise network problems too.
>
>> It doesn't conform to RFC 7084 either, which clearly
>
>> states that "prefix(es) (and ULA prefix if configured...)" must be
>> advertised.
>>
>
> The precursor to 7084 (6204) was in development at the time, but it
> wouldn't have helped because they were ignoring our feedback.
> (Another CPE vendor was much better and almost too keen - they were
> sending me new software to test within 24 hours after reporting an
> IPv6 issue.)
>
> Regards, Mark.
>
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