Re: [v6ops] Focused discussion: draft-ietf-v6ops-unique-ipv6-prefix-per-host

"Templin, Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com> Wed, 06 January 2016 00:35 UTC

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From: "Templin, Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Focused discussion: draft-ietf-v6ops-unique-ipv6-prefix-per-host
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Hi Fred,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Baker (fred) [mailto:fred@cisco.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2016 4:25 PM
> To: Templin, Fred L
> Cc: John Brzozowski; v6ops@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [v6ops] Focused discussion: draft-ietf-v6ops-unique-ipv6-prefix-per-host
> 
> 
> > On Jan 5, 2016, at 10:50 AM, Templin, Fred L <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com> wrote:
> >
> >> respect the fact that AERO has been around for some time, however, it does
> >> not appear to be widely deployed.
> >
> > That is irrelevant.
> 
> I'm sorry, no, it is relevant. We're not talking about IPv5, IPv7, TUBA, RFC 3053, RFC 5572, ISATAP (which one actually can describe as
> widely deployed or having once been widely deployed) or quite a long list of other technologies.

To be fair, AERO is about IPv6 and DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation - not some
weird new IP protocol version. Likening it to IPv5, IPv7, TUBA, etc. is
therefore inappropriate.

Thanks - Fred
fred.l.templin@boeing.com

> In a draft whose primary purpose (BCP) is to ask network administrators to not restrict hosts or host interfaces to a single address,
> discussing a technology that might or might not have promise but is not widely received as a common current practice is at best
> irrelevant.