Re: [v6ops] draft-templin-v6ops-pdhost a working group draft?

Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Mon, 20 November 2017 10:21 UTC

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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:21:14 +0900
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] draft-templin-v6ops-pdhost a working group draft?
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On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org> wrote:

> > I think there are properties we can generalize such as "hosts don't need
> to send DAD packets to the network for any address formed from that
> prefix", "hosts can likely form as many IPv6 addresses from that prefix
> without causing ND cache scaling issues in the network", "hosts can use RFC
> 7278 tethering safely", etc.
>
> I really don't want to see the hack of 7278 spread further.
> My point was that there is no way for the host to know this prefix is
> dedicated to it, apart from making a guess based on data-link layer type.
>

Sure, in general there is no way for the host to know (at least currently).
But there are lots of things that we can say the host can/should do if it
does know that the prefix is dedicated to it. Two ways it can know are a)
it's a 3GPP link and b) it received a prefix delegation.