RE: I-D ACTION:draft-savola-ipv6-127-prefixlen-00.txt (fwd)

2002-02-12 Thread Pekka Savola
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Michel Py wrote: > > Dan Lanciani wrote: > > An obvious reason would be that the one who wishes to subnet > > the /64 is not the same one who should have used a /48, with > > the former one having little control over the latter one. > > A dial-up connection gets a /48. N

draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-v3-02.txt

2002-02-12 Thread Thomas Narten
In reviewing this ID prior to approving the IETF Last Call, I have the following questions/comments: > Rate limiting: > > The limit parameters (e.g., T or F in the above examples) MUST > be configurable for the node, with a conservative default value > (e.g., T = 0.5 seco

RE: I-D ACTION:draft-savola-ipv6-127-prefixlen-00.txt (fwd)

2002-02-12 Thread Michel Py
> Dan Lanciani wrote: > An obvious reason would be that the one who wishes to subnet > the /64 is not the same one who should have used a /48, with > the former one having little control over the latter one. A dial-up connection gets a /48.

RE: I-D ACTION:draft-savola-ipv6-127-prefixlen-00.txt (fwd)

2002-02-12 Thread Dan Lanciani
"Michel Py" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [much snipped] |and I still fail to see a valid reason to subnet |a /64 when one should have used a /48 and subnet using the SLA |bits. An obvious reason would be that the one who wishes to subnet the /64 is not the same one who should have used a /48, wit

Re: IPv6 Addr/Prefix clarification

2002-02-12 Thread Rob Austein
> Allocations on non-nibble boundaries are possible of course.. it could > just mean about 8 different almost identical delegations in the worst > case. Right. Which should trivially easy to automate for any organization big enough to need to worry about it. > Or are you referring to "Class-les

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Advanced Sockets API for IPv6"

2002-02-12 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: Why do you belive the IPV6_RTHDRDSTOPTS is unnecessary? Is it because of the lack of options that would go into this header? => this is the main reason. In fact the only destination option in the draft (or in a RFC), the tunnel encapsulation limit, needs t

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Advanced Sockets API for IPv6"

2002-02-12 Thread Vladislav Yasevich
Francis Francis Dupont wrote: > >If so, how can a user specify a couple of destination >options headers before and after a routing header? > > => he cannot but he doesn't need it and he cannot specify > a destination option header just before a fragmentation header. > IPV6_RTHDRDSTOPTS

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Advanced Sockets API for IPv6"

2002-02-12 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: > Some late comments about draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2292bis-04.txt: Thanks for the detailed comments. (But, yeah, this is a bit late. I just submitted the 05 version...) => sorry... > - 0: is it time to alias sin6_scope_id to sin6_zone_id (far

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Advanced Sockets API for IPv6"

2002-02-12 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:15:14 +0100, > Francis Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Some late comments about draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2292bis-04.txt: Thanks for the detailed comments. (But, yeah, this is a bit late. I just submitted the 05 version...) > - 0: is it time to alias sin6_scop

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Advanced Sockets API for IPv6"

2002-02-12 Thread Francis Dupont
Some late comments about draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2292bis-04.txt: - 0: is it time to alias sin6_scope_id to sin6_zone_id (far better name but not suitable for the basic API)? - 2.1.1: IPPROTO_IPCOMP (108, RFC 3173) is missing (as usual :-). - 2.2.2: ND_RA_FLAG_HA (for Mobile IPv6) is missing

Re: Randomness and uniqueness

2002-02-12 Thread Alexandru Petrescu
Erik Nordmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > First, I find CGA (Computationally Generated Addresses) mechanisms to > > have valuable IP security properties and are probably exploitable in > > some contexts. > > CGA = Cryptographically Generated Addresses Right. EGA = Expensively Generated Addr