Re: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-ietf-v6ops-dhcp-pd-per-device-00.txt

[Lorenzo Colitti <[e-mail]>]

Ah, good catch, yes. We'll change it to hosts.

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 6:02 AM Brian E Carpenter <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 19-May-23 03:59, Vasilenko Eduard wrote:
> > Section 4 is still misleading people that SLAAC (and /64 as a
> consequence) are mandatory.
>
> The draft says:
>
>      because all IPv6 nodes are required to support SLAAC.
>
> This is not quite true. BCP 220 (RFC 8504) says:
>
>     Hosts MUST support IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration.
>
> In the context of this draft, that discrepancy is unimportant.
>
> Of course, sites MAY choose to deploy DHCPv6 instead of SLAAC, but that
> doesn't remove the MUST for hosts.
>
>      Brian
>
> > In fact, section 4 assumes some special "complex host" that has a
> virtual router inside. Is it still a host? Does the virtual router need
> additional specifications?
> > Albeit, in the majority of cases, a normal host would not have a virtual
> router inside.
> > Moreover, even virtualized host (with many VMs or Containers) would have
> a virtual switch inside, not a router.
> > Hence, for the great majority of cases, SLAAC is not relevant.
> > Section 4 is still misleading.
> >
> > Nothing in the draft is about the possibility to use prefixes different
> from /64.
> >
> > The draft is still targeted for one corner case (with a virtual router
> inside the host),
> > Discarding the possibility to use the solution on a much broader set of
> use cases.
> >
> > Ed/
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: v6ops [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of
> [e-mail]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2023 6:35 PM
> > To: [e-mail]
> > Cc: [e-mail]
> > Subject: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-ietf-v6ops-dhcp-pd-per-device-00.txt
> >
> >
> > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories. This Internet-Draft is a work item of the IPv6 Operations
> (V6OPS) WG of the IETF.
> >
> >     Title           : Using DHCP-PD to Allocate Unique IPv6 Prefix per
> Device in Broadcast Networks
> >     Authors         : Lorenzo Colitti
> >                       Jen Linkova
> >                       Xiao Ma
> >     Filename        : draft-ietf-v6ops-dhcp-pd-per-device-00.txt
> >     Pages           : 14
> >     Date            : 2023-05-18
> >
> > Abstract:
> >     This document discusses the IPv6 deployment scenario when individual
> >     devices connected to broadcast networks (like WiFi hotspots or
> >     enterprise networks) are allocated unique prefixes via DHCP-PD.
> >
> > The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-v6ops-dhcp-pd-per-device/
> >
> > There is also an HTML version available at:
> >
> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-v6ops-dhcp-pd-per-device-00.html
> >
> > Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at rsync.ietf.org:
> :internet-drafts
> >
> >
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