Hi Juliusz, Thanks for the update.
> On 20 Nov 2025, at 13:56, Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I did read this document as part of my shepherding. >> >> Very well written and to the point. Thank you. > > Thanks, Luigi. > >> I have a couple of nits that I put hereafter, marked with [LI]. > > I've just published -04, which includes your changes except the following > one: > >>> Resolution may be recursive: the next-hop may itself be a prefix that >>> requires further resolution to map to the outgoing interface and L2 >>> address. V4-via-v6 routing does not prevent recursive resolution. >> >> [LI] Does this include any form of recursion or just v4 -> v6 -> v6 ….. etc ? >> Can you clarify? Actually my point was about clearly stating that once you are in the ipv6 domain you stay in ipv6. But at the end of the day since this document is about v4-via-v6 it should be ok the way it is stated now. > > Since we only define v4-via-v6, once you're in v6 land you stay there. If > we were to ever define v6-via-v4 (which I'm not advocating), then you > could in principle alternate between the two domains, which would likely > lead to an increase in nervous breakdowns among network administrators. > > I'm not too keen on expanding on this statement, since I have no > operational experience with recursive v4-via-v6, and I'm afraid I'll say > something wrong. So please let me take the low-risk path of not saying > anything more about recursion, at least until we get some operational > experience with recursion together with v4-via-v6. > > Thanks again, > > -- Juliusz The following comment in section 4 has not been addressed. > > Routers implementing the mechanism described in this document do not > need to have any IPv4 addresses assigned to any of their interfaces, > and RFC 1812 does not specify what happens if no router-id has been [LI] Any reason why “RFC 1812” is not in brackets? Any reason not evident to me? Thanks L. _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
