Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-24 Thread Fred L. Templin
Thomas et al, The main message I am getting is that the L bit is a don't-care from the standpoint of RFC 2462 section 5.5, and I agree that that point needs no further clarification. But, I'm still a bit uncertain on the following point: Thomas Narten wrote: This question applies to any address a

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-24 Thread Thomas Narten
Hi Fred. The main message I am getting is that the L bit is a don't-care from the standpoint of RFC 2462 section 5.5, and I agree that that point needs no further clarification. But, I'm still a bit uncertain on the following point: Thomas Narten wrote: This question applies to any address

RE: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-21 Thread Bound, Jim
Fred, I'm still of the opinion that some ambiguity exists. Namely, if a prefix option has the Autonomous flag (A bit) set and the on-link flag (L bit) NOT set, one could infer from reading RFC 2462, section 5.5 that it is OK to go ahead and configure an address from the (off-link) prefix

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-21 Thread Thomas Narten
Fred L. Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm still of the opinion that some ambiguity exists. Namely, if a prefix option has the Autonomous flag (A bit) set and the on-link flag (L bit) NOT set, one could infer from reading RFC 2462, section 5.5 that it is OK to go ahead and configure an

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-21 Thread Bob Hinden
I still do not (yet) see the need for further clarifications in the documents (and certainly not in node requirements, for the level of detail we're talking about here). My view as well. Bob IETF IPng Working Group Mailing

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-18 Thread Fred L. Templin
Thomas, I'm still of the opinion that some ambiguity exists. Namely, if a prefix option has the Autonomous flag (A bit) set and the on-link flag (L bit) NOT set, one could infer from reading RFC 2462, section 5.5 that it is OK to go ahead and configure an address from the (off-link) prefix as

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-18 Thread Tim Hartrick
Fred, I have myself been confused by the L bit in the past but I don't think there is anywhere near as much ambiguity here as you. And, if there is the node requirements document isn't the place to fix it. I'm still of the opinion that some ambiguity exists. Namely, if a prefix option has

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-18 Thread Fred L. Templin
Tim, Tim Hartrick wrote: Fred, I have myself been confused by the L bit in the past but I don't think there is anywhere near as much ambiguity here as you. And, if there is the node requirements document isn't the place to fix it. I'm still of the opinion that some ambiguity exists. Namely,

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-18 Thread Tim Hartrick
Fred, Right now, all RFC 2462 (section 5.3.3) says is to go ahead and configure addresses for prefix options with the A bit set; the L bit is don't-care. But, RFC 2461 (section 6.3.4) says that a prefix information option with the on-link flag set to zero conveys no information

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-18 Thread Fred L. Templin
Tim, Tim Hartrick wrote: Sure, that is what assigning an address to an interface means. Are you saying that you want to send datagrams that are destined to an address which is assigned to a local interface, to a router, just because the advertised prefix from which the address was derived had

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-18 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:56:36 -0800, Fred L. Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have myself been confused by the L bit in the past but I don't think there is anywhere near as much ambiguity here as you. And, if there is the node requirements document isn't the place to fix it. I'm still

RE: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-17 Thread john . loughney
Hi Fred, I wonder if the setting of the L bit in Prefix Information options also bears some mention in this section. RFC 2461, section 4.6.2 says: When (the L bit is) not set, the advertisment makes no statement about on-link or off-link properties of the prefix. For instance,

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-17 Thread Thomas Narten
Fred L. Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wonder if the setting of the L bit in Prefix Information options also bears some mention in this section. RFC 2461, section 4.6.2 says: When (the L bit is) not set, the advertisment makes no statement about on-link or off-link properties of

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-15 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:34:56 -0800, Fred L. Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I wonder if the setting of the L bit in Prefix Information options also bears some mention in this section. RFC 2461, section 4.6.2 says: When (the L bit is) not set, the advertisment makes no statement

RE: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-12 Thread Christian Huitema
It should be SHOULD. The M bit means use Tasteful. The O bit means use Stateful. Two different contexts. I was here when they were put in ND and recall why. One reason is that not everyone believed that just stateless was acceptable and that was vision on those persons part. We had a

RE: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-12 Thread Bob Hinden
I agree with this and think that a MUST for stateless and MAY for DHCP is fine. Bob (with no hats on) We had a conclusive discussion off this point during the interim WG meeting in Sunnyvale. The reasoning goes as follow: if we want to maximize interoperability, we want to have a single

RE: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-12 Thread Bound, Jim
It should be SHOULD. The M bit means use Tasteful. The O bit means use Stateful. Two different contexts. I was here when they were put in ND and recall why. One reason is that not everyone believed that just stateless was acceptable and that was vision on those persons part.

RE: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-11 Thread Bound, Jim
John, It should be SHOULD. The M bit means use Tasteful. The O bit means use Stateful. Two different contexts. I was here when they were put in ND and recall why. One reason is that not everyone believed that just stateless was acceptable and that was vision on those persons part. The

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-10 Thread Fred L. Templin
Roy et al, I wonder if the setting of the L bit in Prefix Information options also bears some mention in this section. RFC 2461, section 4.6.2 says: When (the L bit is) not set, the advertisment makes no statement about on-link or off-link properties of the prefix. For instance, the

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ralph, Not knowing the background of all readers of the doc, it might be good to put your explicit warning in the text: An IPv6 node that does not include an implementation of DHCP will be unable to obtain any IPv6 addresses aside from link-local

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-07 Thread Roy Brabson
Not knowing the background of all readers of the doc, it might be good to put your explicit warning in the text: An IPv6 node that does not include an implementation of DHCP will be unable to obtain any IPv6 addresses aside from link-local addresses when it is connected to a link

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-07 Thread Ralph Droms
Roy - thanks for noticing the omission of manually configured addresses. Your revised text looks fine to me. - Ralph At 11:07 AM 2/7/2003 -0500, Roy Brabson wrote: Not knowing the background of all readers of the doc, it might be good to put your explicit warning in the text: An IPv6

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-06 Thread Brian Haberman
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Brian Haberman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ralph, The text looks really good, what do other thinks? Does anyone have a preference for Stateful Address Autoconfiguration to be a SHOULD or a MAY? I tend to agree with the SHOULD. Since these nodes recognize

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Brian Haberman wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: Brian Haberman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ralph, The text looks really good, what do other thinks? Does anyone have a preference for Stateful Address Autoconfiguration to be a SHOULD or a MAY? I tend to agree with the

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-06 Thread Jari Arkko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brian(s); My concern is the scenario where an operator knowingly disables prefix advertisements and enables DHCPv6. If the nodes doesn't do DHCP, it is stuck with only the link-local address. Understood. That certainly deserves a health warning. But in large

RE: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-06 Thread juha . wiljakka
Hi all! I support the proposal below the idea having DHCPv6 support as a MAY. Best Regards, -Juha W.- -Original Message- From: ext Jari Arkko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 February, 2003 15:15 In general, stateless address autoconfig is a good thing, so we want

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-06 Thread Brian Haberman
Jari Arkko wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brian(s); My concern is the scenario where an operator knowingly disables prefix advertisements and enables DHCPv6. If the nodes doesn't do DHCP, it is stuck with only the link-local address. Understood. That certainly deserves a health

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-06 Thread Ralph Droms
Jari, At 03:14 PM 2/6/2003 +0200, Jari Arkko wrote: [snip] Maybe the right thing is to attach a warning or an explanation about the implications and leave the support as a MAY. For instance, Nodes that do not implement DHCP may become unable to communicate outside the link when their

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-06 Thread Jari Arkko
Ralph, your text is fine. I didn't realize you already had it there. Anyway, as long as a note roughly with the contents we have been discussing appears, I'm OK with it... Jari Do you suggest this text in addition to or replacing the following text from my original draft: An IPv6 node

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-06 Thread Ralph Droms
Jari - I liked the way your text was explicit about the consequences of not obtaining a global address through DHCP when no stateless autoconfig prefixes are advertised: Nodes that do not implement DHCP may become unable to communicate outside the link when their routers advertise

RE: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-05 Thread Ralph Droms
John, I've reviewed the text in draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-02.txt, and I have some comments about the text concerning DHCP. Regarding the use of DHCP for address assignment...RFC2462 is somewhat vague about the requirement - there are no RFC2119 words guiding the ues of DHCP in section

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-05 Thread Jari Arkko
Ralph Droms wrote: John, I've reviewed the text in draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-02.txt, and I have some comments about the text concerning DHCP. Regarding the use of DHCP for address assignment...RFC2462 is somewhat vague about the requirement - there are no RFC2119 words guiding the ues

RE: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-05 Thread john . loughney
(NRC/Helsinki) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt John, I've reviewed the text in draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-02.txt, and I have some comments about the text concerning DHCP. Regarding the use of DHCP for address

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-05 Thread Brian Haberman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ralph, The text looks really good, what do other thinks? Does anyone have a preference for Stateful Address Autoconfiguration to be a SHOULD or a MAY? I tend to agree with the SHOULD. Since these nodes recognize the 'M' 'O' bit-settings, they should be capable of

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-02-05 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: following text : 4.5.5 Stateful Address Autoconfiguration Stateful Address Autoconfiguration SHOULD be supported. DHCP SHOULD or MAY? = I agree, a MAY is enough. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-01-27 Thread john . loughney
; Loughney John (NRC/Helsinki) Cc: Bound, Jim; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt There may be some additional discussion about the 'M' and 'O' bits during my slot in the ipv6 WG meeting Thu AM. - Ralph At 12:09 PM 11/21/2002 +, Greg Daley wrote

Re: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-01-27 Thread Ralph Droms
: ext Ralph Droms [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 November, 2002 14:56 To: Greg Daley; Loughney John (NRC/Helsinki) Cc: Bound, Jim; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt There may be some additional discussion about the 'M' and 'O' bits during my slot

RE: M O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2003-01-27 Thread john . loughney
Hi Ralph, John - the earlier discussions in the ipv6 WG meeting ran long, so we didn't get a chance to discuss draft-droms-dhcpv6-issues-00.txt, which includes some text on the 'M' and 'O' bits. I understand about that. Anyway, I'll be travelling for the next couple of days. I'll

RE: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2002-12-23 Thread john . loughney
Hi Minto, what do u meant say? Multihomed host is beyond this document? What I mean is that it is not a requirement that an IPv6 Node be multihomed. is Running the routing protocol or necessary configuration not a minimum requirement of multihomed host? A multihomed host is not

RE: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2002-12-22 Thread Jeyanath Minto J - CTD, Chennai.
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt Hi Minto, This does not sound like a minimum requirement for IPv6 nodes - are you proposing that IPv6 thermometer would need multihoming? The current document does not state this is the maximum functionality for an IPv6 node

RE: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2002-12-17 Thread Soohong Daniel Park
, passive IPv6 node : thermometer, lighting, washer, refrigerator, some kinds of home appliances Daniel From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 10:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt Hi Daniel, 4.5.5

RE: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2002-12-17 Thread Soohong Daniel Park
In what cases will stateless address autoconfiguration fail? If it fails, there is always the possibility of setting addresses by user interaction (typing in the addresses). Stateful is dependent upon DHCPv6, and users cannot depend that it will be implemented everywhere, especially since it is

RE: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2002-12-17 Thread john . loughney
not to use such terms. John -Original Message- From: ext Soohong Daniel Park [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 December, 2002 01:51 To: Loughney John (NRC/Helsinki) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt I am interested in home network

RE: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2002-12-17 Thread Pekka Savola
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Soohong Daniel Park wrote: Basically, stateful address autoconfiguration is more useful than typing in the addresses. Because IPv6 address is far more complex. Useful for who? I certainly find typing addresses much more useful. Many IPv6 addresses are very easy to

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2002-12-16 Thread Jari Arkko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jari, Thanks for the summary, I agree with you. Just a general note, the Node Requirements document cannot specify new behavior for IP security, I think it would be useful to have some work get started to review and update this info. There is ongoing work: -

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2002-12-15 Thread Jari Arkko
I agree with the comments. That section needs a rewrite. A couple of points I wanted to raise, however: - In this document, we want to describe the situation as it is in the other RFCs. For instance, if the IPsec RFCs say you must support AH and ESP then we say it here too. If the situation

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2002-12-15 Thread Richard Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suggestions always welcomed. I quite liked the text in the final LCNA draft. But it clearly doesn't meet the requirements Jari covered in his post. Richard. IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2002-12-15 Thread Richard Nelson
Thanks for that, it certainly explains a bit. Can I suggest that in the re-write these considerations are made more explicit. Richard. Jari Arkko wrote: I agree with the comments. That section needs a rewrite. A couple of points I wanted to raise, however: - In this document, we want to

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2002-12-14 Thread Mukesh Gupta
Thanks for pointing this out Richard. I agree with you. I (and at least one more guy I know) had the same confusion. We could not figure out what the whole section meant :-( ext Richard Nelson wrote: I've read this a couple of times and I find the security section (sec 8) quite confusing. I

RE: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2002-12-14 Thread john . loughney
Hi Gupta, Thanks for pointing this out Richard. I agree with you. I (and at least one more guy I know) had the same confusion. We could not figure out what the whole section meant :-( The security section needs a re-write. Some of the confusion on the section is due to the fact that it was

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2002-12-11 Thread Richard Nelson
I've read this a couple of times and I find the security section (sec 8) quite confusing. I am not a security expert but it appears to me that it is not consistent. In particular sec 8.2 says AH [RFC-2402] must be supported. It then goes on to say there is no real need for AH and in both

RE: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2002-11-24 Thread Bound, Jim
it in the first place. Ben Franklin] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 7:52 PM To: Bound, Jim; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt Hi Jim, Today in v6ops I think I heard

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2002-11-21 Thread Ralph Droms
There may be some additional discussion about the 'M' and 'O' bits during my slot in the ipv6 WG meeting Thu AM. - Ralph At 12:09 PM 11/21/2002 +, Greg Daley wrote: Hi Jim, I find it hard to tell if you mean it is wrong (incorrect) or wrong (not the right way to go). about the current

draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2002-11-20 Thread Bound, Jim
Today in v6ops I think I heard that compliance to the ND M bit being set is optional. That I think is wrong. But the node reqs doc states that dhcpv6 is unconditionally optional which is probably correct because stateful may not imply dhcpv6 today. But if the M bit is set the host node (non

RE: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2002-11-20 Thread john . loughney
Hi Jim, Today in v6ops I think I heard that compliance to the ND M bit being set is optional. That I think is wrong. But the node reqs doc states that dhcpv6 is unconditionally optional which is probably correct because stateful may not imply dhcpv6 today. But if the M bit is set the host

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

2002-11-20 Thread Greg Daley
Hi Jim, I find it hard to tell if you mean it is wrong (incorrect) or wrong (not the right way to go). about the current status though, section 5.4.5 of RFC 2462 mentions that a node which receives the M flag goes should undertake stateful address configuration. there is no MUST