Re: [v6ops] SLAAC renum: Problem Statement & Operational workarounds

[Mark Smith <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, 24 Oct 2019, 20:59 Trevor Warwick, <[e-mail]> wrote:

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> On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 09:18, Mark Smith <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> I thought about this in the exact context of the scenario of this draft.
>> Although the design of the broadband deployment I worked on always planned
>> to give out stable prefixes, I worked through this scenario and realised
>> that so many complex issues disappear if you provide stable prefixes.
>>
>> Fundamentally, if an ISP is selling an always on link to the same
>> location, then the addressing should be as permanent as the link delivery
>> location is.
>>
>>
> If you're an ISP today, and using DHCPv6-PD to hand out IPv6 prefixes,
> what are the possible scenarios if you don't try hard to keep the prefixes
> stable?
>

Why don't you want to try hard? Not trying hard gives customers a bad
experience. They're paying you to try hard to give them the best suitable
service you can give them.


> - You could be running a closed environment where all customers are forced
> to use your CPE, in which case you can make sure that your CPE has various
>  hacks added to try to cope with prefix instability and avoid customer
> hosts experiencing connectivity issues when prefixes change. Maybe you can
> make this work well enough, and advanced customers who don't want to use
> your CPE are just out of luck.
>
> - If you're in an environment where customers can chose their own CPE,
> then it seems almost guaranteed that there will be connectivity problems
> when the prefix changes, because many CPE implementations don't handle this
> situation at all. So you're then relying on hosts falling back seamlessly
> to IPv4, in order to continue to have connectivity. In which case, I'd
> wonder why you're bothering to provide an IPv6 service in the first place.
>

See what I said about selling an always on service to a fixed location, and
the addressing having the same amount of stability as the service and link
itself.

The reason this problem really exists is that ISPs have fundamentally
continued to treat residential, always on broadband customers although they
were still dial up customers. Nothing has changed - per BRAS (NAS) IP
address pools, pool route aggregation at the router, customer gets a single
IPv4 address when they attach, that can change each time they attach. PPPoE
is making Ethernet connectivity resemble dial up connectivity.

Now this dial up model is trying to be applied to semi-permanent IPv6
services, where it's even less applicable now that customers get their own
routed address space on a semi-permanent link.

Treat all customers as routed subnet SOHO customers, so they get the same
prefix regardless of which BRAS they attach to. Move the route aggregation
boundary to a higher level to e.g. a cluster of BRASes, or a region.

Use an IPv6 address provisioning model that suites and matches the service
they're paying for, not a nearly 30 year old dial up model.

If your customers can BYO their CPE, then stable prefixes are the only
choice.

See slide 6.

Residential IPv6 CPE - What Not to Do and Other Observations
https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/markzzzsmith/residential-ipv6-cpe-what-not-to-do-and-other-observations




> I do think this is an important problem that needs to be solved, for this
> context and the others mentioned in the draft.
>
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