Fernando, On May 9, 2012, at 7:50 PM, Fernando Gont wrote:
> Hi, Ole, > > On 05/08/2012 02:42 PM, Ole Trøan wrote: >> The discussion brought up some issues that we will work with the author to >> resolve, in particular: >> >> - The current draft is written to not allow the IETF to create derivative >> works. >> This is incompatible with the IETF standards process. >> See section 4 of http://www.ietf.org/id-info/1id-guidelines.txt > > My understanding is that this is perfectly compatible with the IETF > standards process, as long as this restriction is removed before posting > as draft-ietf (for instance, I guess that's why it's allowed in the > first place). (this restriction will be removed in the upcoming > draft-ietf version, accordingly) It is allowed and I don't want to start a big IPR thread here, but I think the intent for this clause (no derivative works) is for work that someone wants to present to a w.g. that was not intended to be an IETF work item. My opinion is that it's not appropriate for documents intended to become an IETF work item as yours was. > > > >> - The draft should not replace modified EUI-64 IIDs. It intents to provide >> an alternative to >> IEEE MAC based modified EUI-64 IIDs. > > Agreed. > > >> The draft should not update RFC4191 and RFC4862 > > Agreed. However, it looks like this document should update RFC2464, though. > > Thoughts? Perhaps at some point in the future if the working group wants to require stable privacy addresses, but not at this point. I think we will need operational experience before making that change. Bob > > >> - The proposed mechanism has merit separately from the perceived "security" >> benefits, >> because it creates modified EUI-64 Internet Identifiers that are not IEEE >> Mac based and >> eliminates any concern about host tracking based on the IEEE MAC addresses. > > I agree with this -- e.g. using the interface index in the hash leads to > stable NIC-independent addresses that don't vary even if you replace the > NIC. Is *this* what I should note in the next rev of the document? > > Thanks! > > Best regards, > -- > Fernando Gont > e-mail: ferna...@gont.com.ar || fg...@si6networks.com > PGP Fingerprint: 7809 84F5 322E 45C7 F1C9 3945 96EE A9EF D076 FFF1 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > ipv6@ietf.org > Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
