Re: IPv6 Link-Local Use Issue for Applications

2003-08-26 Thread Hans Kruse
--On Monday, August 25, 2003 18:16 -0400 Dan Lanciani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I think the following rules should go with this approach: | | - Assume DNS returns both PA and PUPI, then | if my node only has PUPI, I select the advertised PUPI, | if my

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2003-08-26 Thread kre
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Re: Accept hain/templin draft as wg item?

2003-08-26 Thread Keith Moore
You are arbitrarily calling network conditions reality without recognizing application needs as reality. This may be why you persist in thinking that the problem can be fixed by creating an illusion. What we need is not illusion, but to rearrange functionality so that there is a

RE: reqs for local addressing OR requirements for SL replacement?[Re: Accept hain/templin draft as wg item?]

2003-08-26 Thread Michel Py
Leif Johansson wrote: Sigh. This is almost to dumb to respond to and I'll be kicking myself when the next stats come out ;-) It is possible to build a good car lock (I claim) and some day someone will find the economic incentive to do so. Since I'm so dumb explain me why isn't the good car

RE: Weekly posting summary for ipng@sunroof.eng.sun.com

2003-08-26 Thread Bound, Jim
Is it possible to get topics for the month (not week to much work) and number of responses too. Thanks /jim -Original Message- From: Rob Austein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 12:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Weekly posting summary for [EMAIL

RE: IPv6 Link-Local Use Issue for Applications

2003-08-26 Thread Chirayu Patel
- If there is no match (I have only PUPI and DNS returns PA, or vice versa), I would suggest to fail the connection by default (even though it might work), but I am not sure. .maybe not. Failing connections is too drastic. You never know if the site operator has set up an internal route

RE: IPv6 Link-Local Use Issue for Applications

2003-08-26 Thread Chirayu Patel
|- If there is no match (I have only PUPI and DNS returns PA, or vice |versa), I would suggest to fail the connection by default (even though it |might work), but I am not sure. As long as this default can be changed without the cooperation on the applications (i.e., a global option for

Re: Comment ondraft-ietf-ipv6-prefix-delegation-requirement-03.txt Authorization

2003-08-26 Thread Shin Miyakawa
Hello, James, Thank you for your comment. Just a quick question. As one of the authors of the draft, I am a bit confused. You wrote: The PKIX group is currently conducting Last Call on draft-ietf-pkix-x509-ipaddr-as-extn-01.txt, which is designed to allow certification of prefix delegation

Re: FW: AD response to Site-Local Appeal

2003-08-26 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
In case there was any doubt that the WG has no clue what the vote meant, The vote meant we're going to stop using SLs, IMHO because it became clear that whatever problems SLs were supposed to solve, they weren't worth the cost. We haven't voted on what solutions we were going to recommend for the

RE: reverse delegation of 2002:xxxx:xxxx:: ?

2003-08-26 Thread Jeroen Massar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Antonio Querubin wrote: Does anybody know what the current procedure (if any) is for getting reverse delegation of 6to4 address space going? Contact the RIRs, but there is no policy in place for it yet. As you might know 6bone space still hasn't got a

RE: reqs for local addressing OR requirements for SL replacement?[Re: Accept hain/templin draft as wg item?]

2003-08-26 Thread Pekka Savola
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Tony Hain wrote: This document seems to take for granted that local-use addressing is needed. Moreover, it lists requirements for every possible case where local-use address could be applied to (and, not for example, those cases where the local-use addressing is

RE: reqs for local addressing OR requirements for SL replacement?[Re: Accept hain/templin draft as wg item?]

2003-08-26 Thread Pekka Savola
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Michel Py wrote: Pekka Savola wrote: What I'm trying to say is that we need to first figure out where we need local-use applications -- and, as an interim feature, maybe reword the current draft so that it's apparent which current perceived local-use scenarios

Re: FW: AD response to Site-Local Appeal

2003-08-26 Thread Margaret Wasserman
[Dropped the IESG...] At 11:39 AM 8/26/2003 +0200, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: Agreed. No replacement is also a replacement. That said, I think there is a lot left to discuss on what to recommend for the cases that have been brought up. I agree. There are a number of situations (disconnected

Re: reverse delegation of 2002:xxxx:xxxx:: ?

2003-08-26 Thread Keith Moore
Does anybody know what the current procedure (if any) is for getting reverse delegation of 6to4 address space going? I see 2.0.0.2.ip6.int but no 2.0.0.2.in-addr.arpa zone. 2.0.0.2.in-addr.arpa would not be used with 6to4 in any case, since that's where you would look for information about

Re: IPv6 Link-Local Use Issue for Applications

2003-08-26 Thread Keith Moore
|- If there is no match (I have only PUPI and DNS returns PA, or vice |versa), I would suggest to fail the connection by default (even though it |might work), but I am not sure. As long as this default can be changed without the cooperation on the applications (i.e., a global option

Re: reqs for local addressing OR requirements for SLreplacement?[Re: Accept hain/templin draft as wg item?]

2003-08-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
The other point that's been missed here is that the security-by-hiding argument is only part of the story. Stable address space for intermittently connected networks, unambiguous address space for VPNs, and stable identifiers for multihoming, are also needed. Whatever your religion on the hiding

Questions/Comments (was: RE: Accept hain/templin draft as wg item?)

2003-08-26 Thread Chirayu Patel
Hi, I am quite satisfied with the coverage of the requirements for local addressing. That said, I have a few questions, and comments. Questions - 1) What does the 3rd sentence in the 2nd para in section 3.4 mean? The sentence I am referring to is Given the presence of the well-known

draft-hinden-ipv6-global-local-addr...

2003-08-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
How true. I'd be more than happy to forget the hain/templin draft if we can get this agreed quickly. The IETF has developed a silly habit of getting hung up on requirements drafts; maybe we should just not bother. Brian Hans Kruse wrote: Actually, I think

Re: reqs for local addressing OR requirements for SLreplacement?[Re: Accept hain/templin draft as wg item?]

2003-08-26 Thread Eliot Lear
Brian E Carpenter wrote: The other point that's been missed here is that the security-by-hiding argument is only part of the story. Stable address space for intermittently connected networks, unambiguous address space for VPNs, and stable identifiers for multihoming, are also needed. Whatever

Re: Comment on draft-ietf-ipv6-prefix-delegation-requirement-03.txt Authorization

2003-08-26 Thread James Kempf
It might therefore be helpful to take a look at draft-ietf-pkix-x509 before Last Call completes. ++ Why before ??? I think that prefix delegation requirement draft can go forward with or without draft-ietf-pkix-x509, isn't it ??? Sure. But my point was that if there is change you

RE: reqs for local addressing OR requirements for SL replacement? [Re: Accept hain/templin draft as wg item?]

2003-08-26 Thread Michel Py
Pekka, Pekka Savola wrote: Do you mean that folks who hijacked the address space deployed NAT to be able to continue using their hijacked space inside their network but do one-to-one conversion at the border? Yes. Today it is extremely common to see this with RFC1918 addresses in the inside,

RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-05.txt

2003-08-26 Thread john.loughney
Hi Pekka, 1) some comments never made it to the draft, were they missed or rejected for some purpose? (Example: MLDv1 Source Address Selection document which has been approved by the IESG.) As there was noone speaking up for the MLDv1 Source Address Selection draft reference, I did not

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-05.txt

2003-08-26 Thread Pekka Savola
Hi, After a quick wdiff, two classes of comments: 1) some comments never made it to the draft, were they missed or rejected for some purpose? (Example: MLDv1 Source Address Selection document which has been approved by the IESG.) 2) a few typos I came across: Router Advertisement

Re: reqs for local addressing OR requirements for SL replacement?[Re: Accept hain/templin draft as wg item?]

2003-08-26 Thread Fred Templin
Pekka, Pekka Savola wrote: On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Michel Py wrote: Pekka Savola wrote: What I'm trying to say is that we need to first figure out where we need local-use applications -- and, as an interim feature, maybe reword the current draft so that it's apparent which current perceived

Re: reqs for local addressing OR requirements for SL replacement?[Re: Accept hain/templin draft as wg item?]

2003-08-26 Thread Pekka Savola
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Fred Templin wrote: Pekka Savola wrote: My point exactly! Why are we writing requirements for _local addressing_, and not writing requirements to solve the problems which people perceive exist in IPv6 after the elimination of site-locals?!!?! That is what the

RE: IPv6 Link-Local Use Issue for Applications

2003-08-26 Thread Chirayu Patel
|- If there is no match (I have only PUPI and DNS returns PA, or vice |versa), I would suggest to fail the connection by default (even though it |might work), but I am not sure. As long as this default can be changed without the cooperation on the applications (i.e., a global

Re: reqs for local addressing OR requirements for SLreplacement?[Re: Accept hain/templin draft as wg item?]

2003-08-26 Thread Love Hörnquist Åstrand
Michel Py [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since I'm so dumb explain me why isn't the good car lock installed on every car yet? It's not like the car lock problem is new. And why isn't your miracle security setup installed on every network? We have a word for people such as yourself that claim

Re: reqs for local addressing OR requirements for SL replacement?[Re: Accept hain/templin draft as wg item?]

2003-08-26 Thread Fred Templin
Pekka Savola wrote: On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Fred Templin wrote: Pekka Savola wrote: My point exactly! Why are we writing requirements for _local addressing_, and not writing requirements to solve the problems which people perceive exist in IPv6 after the elimination of site-locals?!!?!

RE: draft-hinden-ipv6-global-local-addr...

2003-08-26 Thread Tony Hain
Brian E Carpenter wrote: How true. I'd be more than happy to forget the hain/templin draft if we can get this agreed quickly. The IETF has developed a silly habit of getting hung up on requirements drafts; maybe we should just not bother. In many cases I agree. Yet one of the

RE: reqs for local addressing OR requirements for SLreplacement?[Re: Accept hain/templin draft as wg item?]

2003-08-26 Thread Tony Hain
Eliot Lear wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: The other point that's been missed here is that the security-by-hiding argument is only part of the story. Stable address space for intermittently connected networks, unambiguous address space for VPNs, and stable identifiers for

RE: reqs for local addressing OR requirements for SL replacement? [Re: Accept hain/templin draft as wg item?]

2003-08-26 Thread Tony Hain
Pekka Savola wrote: The document assumes we need local addressing. That's already solutionism. Having a document which explores local addressing requirements may be OK -- but at least state it clearly and DON'T pretend otherwise! :-) There is no intent to pretend. Maybe what you are

Request to Advance Requirements for IPv6 prefix delegation

2003-08-26 Thread Bob Hinden
Thomas, Margaret, The chairs of the IPv6 working group, on behalf of the working group, request that the following document be published as an Informational RFC: Title : Requirements for IPv6 prefix delegation Author(s) : S. Miyakawa, R. Droms Filename

Request to Advance IPv6 Node Requirements

2003-08-26 Thread Bob Hinden
Thomas, Margaret, The chairs of the IPv6 working group, on behalf of the working group, request that the following document be published as an Informational RFC: Title : IPv6 Node Requirements Author(s) : J. Loughney Filename:

I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-deprecate-site-local-00.txt

2003-08-26 Thread Internet-Drafts
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the IP Version 6 Working Group Working Group of the IETF. Title : Deprecating Site Local Addresses Author(s) : C. Huitema, B. Carpenter Filename

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-deprecate-site-local-00.txt

2003-08-26 Thread Fred Templin
Brian and Christian, Very good draft, but in the first sentence of section 4 please s/link-local/site-local. I believe the same comment applies also to the first sentence of section 5, but please check my thinking on that one. Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A New Internet-Draft

Re: Solving the right problems ...

2003-08-26 Thread Robert Honore
Dear Tony Hain, Perhaps this proposal really requires another working group or something. I seem to remember someone making a similar proposal a several years ago on this list and it didn't seem to get a good reception then. For what it is worth, though, I really do think it is an idea