RE: Scoping Scoped Addresses

2002-11-07 Thread Michel Py
Andrew, > Andrew White wrote: > - If a stable global prefix is available, we strongly recommend > using that and not using site locals. This ignores the fact that many people will use site-locals because addresses that are not publicly routable are a requirement, and this regardless of the fact t

RE: Scoping Scoped Addresses

2002-11-07 Thread Michel Py
> Andrew White wrote: > My short summary: > (a) Within a "site", a site local address works at least > as well as a global address. > (b) Outside a site, a site local address DOES NOT WORK. > I'd say "MUST NOT WORK", but that is a little hard to enforce. > (c) Given (b), the issues with site locals

RE: Scoping Scoped Addresses

2002-11-07 Thread Michel Py
Andrew, > Andrew White wrote: > Note that site local prefixes have no requirement for > global administration or registration, but are likewise > not guaranteed unique, nor expected to be routeable > outside the site. I disagree with the wording of this. Site-locals MUST NOT be routable outside t

Re: IPv6 over PLC ?

2002-11-07 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
Title: 메시지 We are working on it. See www.6power.org.   Regards, Jordi - Original Message - From: Soohong Daniel Park To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 5:16 AM Subject: IPv6 over PLC ? Almost technic for IPv6 over different media was release

IPv6 over PLC ?

2002-11-07 Thread Soohong Daniel Park
Title: 메시지 Almost technic for IPv6 over different media was released, but i couldn't find IPv6 over PLC.     = Soohong Daniel Park  Research Engineer  Mobile Platform Group Digital Media R&D Center Samsung Electronics Co

Re: question regarding possible use of SLs in renumbering

2002-11-07 Thread Keith Moore
> Since you don't answer the question, I'll answer it myself. Site-locals > without NAT do not break applications. tell you what. I'll set up a cron job to keep forwarding the same messages to you over and over again until you get a clue. but I won't cc the list. Keith --

RE: question regarding possible use of SLs in renumbering

2002-11-07 Thread Michel Py
>>> Keith Moore wrote: >>> using SLs in this way would break applications. we need >>> to discourage this. >> What do you mean by "would break applications"? what is >> being broken? End-to-end is preserved, there is no NAT >> nor ALGs, what's your problem here? > We've been discussing this set

Re: question regarding possible use of SLs in renumbering

2002-11-07 Thread Keith Moore
> > Keith Moore wrote: > > using SLs in this way would break applications. we need to > > discourage this. > > What do you mean by "would break applications"? what is being broken? > End-to-end is preserved, there is no NAT nor ALGs, what's your problem > here? Michael, We've been discussing thi

RE: question regarding possible use of SLs in renumbering

2002-11-07 Thread Richard Draves
> The issues with global vs. site-local routing in a "site" > that had multiple locations connected by leased lines were > dismissed, because the multiple locations should be more than > one "site". But, even if Wind River would be forced to have > 20-something sites by this rule, we would stil

RE: question regarding possible use of SLs in renumbering

2002-11-07 Thread Michel Py
>> Michel Py wrote: >> IMHO, the relation between SLs and renumbering is this: SLs >> are used in parts of the network that have no access to the >> public Internet in order to avoid the renumbering of that >> part in case of an ISP change on the part that does have >> access to the outside. This i

Re: question regarding possible use of SLs in renumbering

2002-11-07 Thread Keith Moore
> IMHO, the relation between SLs and renumbering is this: SLs are used in > parts of the network that have no access to the public Internet in order > to avoid the renumbering of that part in case of an ISP change on the > part that does have access to the outside. This is especially important > on

Re: question regarding possible use of SLs in renumbering

2002-11-07 Thread Keith Moore
> >Yes, it is reasonable to assume that a /48 global prefix corresponds to > >a site-local scope. I wouldn't rule out other arrangements but I think > >this will be the common situation. > > Not necessarily. > > The issues with global vs. site-local routing in a "site" that > had multiple locatio

Note Well Statement

2002-11-07 Thread The IESG
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RE: question regarding possible use of SLs in renumbering

2002-11-07 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Yes, it is reasonable to assume that a /48 global prefix corresponds to a site-local scope. I wouldn't rule out other arrangements but I think this will be the common situation. Not necessarily. The issues with global vs. site-local routing in a "site" that had multiple locations connected by

RE: question regarding possible use of SLs in renumbering

2002-11-07 Thread Richard Draves
[I'm trying to get caught on the thread after being away for several days.] Yes, it is reasonable to assume that a /48 global prefix corresponds to a site-local scope. I wouldn't rule out other arrangements but I think this will be the common situation. Rich > -Original Message- > From:

RE: question regarding possible use of SLs in renumbering

2002-11-07 Thread Michel Py
>> Michel Py wrote: >> You mean, as a temporary state between renumbering >> between two global addresses? > Keith Moore wrote: > not just then - during a period prior to renumbering, > during overlap, or afterward, do the scopes of SLs and > prefixes necessarily coincide? They might, and the add

Re: question regarding possible use of SLs in renumbering

2002-11-07 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Hi Keith, The architecture does not require any correspondence between site boundaries and the sets of links upon which a single global routing prefix is advertised. Margaret At 12:10 PM 11/7/02, Keith Moore wrote: question: is it reasonable to assume that if a network is advertising one or

Re: question regarding possible use of SLs in renumbering

2002-11-07 Thread Keith Moore
> > is it reasonable to assume that if a network is advertising > > one or more global prefixes via ND/RD, that the scope of > > a 'site' for SL addresses corresponds to the scope in which > > those global prefixes are advertised? in other words, would > > it really be reasonable to assume that one

RE: question regarding possible use of SLs in renumbering

2002-11-07 Thread Michel Py
> Keith Moore wrote: > is it reasonable to assume that if a network is advertising > one or more global prefixes via ND/RD, that the scope of > a 'site' for SL addresses corresponds to the scope in which > those global prefixes are advertised? in other words, would > it really be reasonable to assu

question regarding possible use of SLs in renumbering

2002-11-07 Thread Keith Moore
question: is it reasonable to assume that if a network is advertising one or more global prefixes via ND/RD, that the scope of a 'site' for SL addresses corresponds to the scope in which those global prefixes are advertised? in other words, would it really be reasonable to assume that one could

Re: Scoping Scoped Addresses

2002-11-07 Thread Keith Moore
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 08:30:48AM -0500, Keith Moore wrote: > > This seems like a good start. > > Indeed, shame it didn't come 200 emails ago ;-) It seems some concensus > can be reached on the assumption that site locals will continue to exist, > although many of us may be happy to not use th

Re: Scoping Scoped Addresses

2002-11-07 Thread Ignatios Souvatzis
Hi, On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Ralph Droms wrote: > Is this situation - a mobile node using site-local addresses moving to a > new "site" - an opportunity for inadvertent (or possibly even malicious) > TCP session hijacking? I.e., is the problem worse in the case of active > a

Re: Scoping Scoped Addresses

2002-11-07 Thread Ralph Droms
At 08:39 AM 11/7/2002 -0500, Keith Moore wrote: > > I don't follow your analogy. Let me try one of my own. Expecting > > apps to use SLs is like expecting that someone who is married to > > a person named "mary" will be equally satisfied with the person > > named "mary" in whatever town he happe

Re: Scoping Scoped Addresses

2002-11-07 Thread Tim Chown
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 08:30:48AM -0500, Keith Moore wrote: > This seems like a good start. Indeed, shame it didn't come 200 emails ago ;-) It seems some concensus can be reached on the assumption that site locals will continue to exist, although many of us may be happy to not use them. Darwin

Re: A few comments on Site-Local Useage

2002-11-07 Thread Brian Haberman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The original intent in the scoped addr arch was that the site-local zone id would be indicate which interfaces are within a site. The filtering between sites is handled by the forwarding code. Vendors that support these zone ids will have default values for the zone ids.

Re: A few comments on Site-Local Useage

2002-11-07 Thread itojun
>The original intent in the scoped addr arch was that the site-local >zone id would be indicate which interfaces are within a site. The >filtering between sites is handled by the forwarding code. > >Vendors that support these zone ids will have default values for the >zone ids. If the vendors don

Re: A few comments on Site-Local Useage

2002-11-07 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Brian Haberman wrote: > Pekka Savola wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Keith Moore wrote: > > > >>>What I meant to say that to implement site-locals properly in a router, > >>>the vendor should not be OK to say "we support access-lists, you can use > >>>them to configure site-loca

Re: A few comments on Site-Local Useage

2002-11-07 Thread Brian Haberman
Pekka Savola wrote: On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Keith Moore wrote: What I meant to say that to implement site-locals properly in a router, the vendor should not be OK to say "we support access-lists, you can use them to configure site-local borders" or that "we have nice firewall products, wanna buy one

Re: A few comments on Site-Local Useage

2002-11-07 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Keith Moore wrote: > > What I meant to say that to implement site-locals properly in a router, > > the vendor should not be OK to say "we support access-lists, you can use > > them to configure site-local borders" or that "we have nice firewall > > products, wanna buy one?". >

Re: A few comments on Site-Local Useage

2002-11-07 Thread Keith Moore
> What I meant to say that to implement site-locals properly in a router, > the vendor should not be OK to say "we support access-lists, you can use > them to configure site-local borders" or that "we have nice firewall > products, wanna buy one?". I'm not sure about that. Having routers try to a

Re: Scoping Scoped Addresses

2002-11-07 Thread Keith Moore
> > I don't follow your analogy. Let me try one of my own. Expecting > > apps to use SLs is like expecting that someone who is married to > > a person named "mary" will be equally satisfied with the person > > named "mary" in whatever town he happens to be in (if there is one), > > or that he'll

Re: Scoping Scoped Addresses

2002-11-07 Thread Keith Moore
This seems like a good start. I think it would help to provide some advice to applications regarding site-locals (and for that matter link-locals). e.g. - don't use site-locals in referrals unless you have no global addresses. - use global addresses in preference to site-locals when opening new

Re: rfc2553bis-07 to rfc2553bis-08 changes

2002-11-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Here's a suggestion, which I think fits with the logic of Thomas Narten's comment too: The sin6_flowinfo field is a 32-bit field intended to contain flow-related information. The exact way this field is mapped into a packet is not currently specified. I don't think we should hold up the

Re: A few comments on Site-Local Useage

2002-11-07 Thread Margaret Wasserman
> existence of IPv6 firewalls, then these firewalls can also enforce site > boundaries. Sure, but that is not sufficient to satisfy addr-archv3 2.5.6 last paragraph IMO. Why not? If a router is not on a site-boundary, it doesn't need to do anything to enforce site boundaries. In Bob's examp

Re: A few comments on Site-Local Useage

2002-11-07 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Margaret Wasserman wrote: > > > existence of IPv6 firewalls, then these firewalls can also enforce site > > > boundaries. > > > >Sure, but that is not sufficient to satisfy addr-archv3 2.5.6 last > >paragraph IMO. > > Why not? > > If a router is not on a site-boundary, it does