Re: ULA and WAN-routability

2007-07-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-07-02 00:21, Joe Abley wrote: Very late to this party, but: On 27-Jun-2007, at 09:11, Brian E Carpenter wrote: We can argue about the meaning of intrinsically I guess. But what I mean is that they are /48s and I don't expect to see /48s routed globally. Architecturally, they are

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt

2007-07-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-07-01 17:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A site is a network of computers with a single administration, this can mean indeed a major corporation (who maybe even require multiple /48's which is why rfc4193 is a bit off to cover those cases) Where has the IETF redefined the meaning of the

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt

2007-07-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Paul, On 2007-06-29 17:33, Paul Vixie wrote: Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [vixie] ... and why are we wasting our keystrokes discussing this if there's a preclusive topic being discussed somewhere entirely else? I don't think it's preclusive. If that discussion does lead to an

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt

2007-07-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Brian D, On 2007-06-29 20:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I think that ULA has come about as an answer to the need for IPv6 space, which does not have procedural overhead or cost (both of which occur when requesting space from RIRs). There are more motivations than that - the ability to

Re: AfriNIC, ULA-C, why not just get PI space

2007-07-02 Thread Alain Patrick AINA
On Wednesday 27 June 2007 08:48:14 pm bill fumerola wrote: AfriNIC has implemented a PIv6 space policy[0]. part of it states: * The 'end-site' must show a plan to use and announce the IPv6 provider independent address space within twelve (12) months. After that period, if not announced, the

Re: ULA and WAN-routability

2007-07-02 Thread Bill Manning
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 06:21:10PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote: Very late to this party, but: On 27-Jun-2007, at 09:11, Brian E Carpenter wrote: We can argue about the meaning of intrinsically I guess. But what I mean is that they are /48s and I don't expect to see /48s routed globally.

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt

2007-07-02 Thread Paul Vixie
Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK, I didn't intend to be emotional there. Let me try to explain. Until we get something fundamentally different from the routing researchers, the only model we have is BGP4, ... i've heard of alternatives but you're right that nothing else has caught on.

Re: IPv6 WG Last Call: draft-ietf-ipv6-deprecate-rh0-01.txt

2007-07-02 Thread Tim Enos
I support the promotion of draft-ietf-ipv6-deprecate-rh0-01.txt to a Proposed Standard. IMO the editor and author(s) did an exceptionally good job in distilling our many and often somewhat divergent comments into the document we're considering. The above having been said, I'd like to share one

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt

2007-07-02 Thread David Conrad
What's your estimate of the total number of ULA-C prefixes needed? approximately one per family, worldwide, counting only the population who has electric power. much much higher than the 2-megaroute level, or the number of domain names registered in .COM and .DE (the two largest TLDs). If

Re: IPv6 WG Last Call: draft-ietf-ipv6-deprecate-rh0-01.txt

2007-07-02 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Le jeudi 28 juin 2007, ext Bob Hinden a écrit : This starts a two week IPv6 working group last call on advancing Title : Deprecation of Type 0 Routing Headers in IPv6 Author(s) : J. Abley, et al. Filename: draft-ietf-ipv6-deprecate-rh0-01.txt

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt

2007-07-02 Thread Paul Vixie
If those numbers fit within reasonable guesses about sustainable DFZ growth, no problem. they don't fit, but they don't have to fit, because they're not going in. How is this going to work? Are you assuming NATv6? no. i'm assuming that the days when the DFZ was the center of the

New version of draft-wbeebee-nd-implementation-pitfalls is available - last was 00, new one is 01

2007-07-02 Thread Hemant Singh (shemant)
Folks, We had to get this new one out since we last discussed the -00 version mainly with Tatuya and Brian Carpenter. The URL to the new one is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-wbeebee-nd-implementation-pitf alls-01.txt Relevant points with the new I-D are below. 1. Please read

re: Internet Draft Submission Manager: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-global-01.txt

2007-07-02 Thread Paul Vixie
i took a copy of ula-central-02 and modded it with my current thinking and submitted it as a new draft. i did three things wrong, first i didn't ask the authors of central-02 if they wanted to be listed as authors of global-01 (but i didn't remove their names since a lot of the text was written

Re: AfriNIC, ULA-C, why not just get PI space

2007-07-02 Thread bill fumerola
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 12:17:45PM +, Alain Patrick AINA wrote: those in the AfriNIC region who want globally unique, registered space but do not plan to announce the IPv6 PI address space have no method of getting any such space. if anyone reads this differently than i do, please

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt

2007-07-02 Thread briand
If those numbers fit within reasonable guesses about sustainable DFZ growth, no problem. they don't fit, but they don't have to fit, because they're not going in. How is this going to work? Are you assuming NATv6? no. i'm assuming that the days when the DFZ was the center of the

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt

2007-07-02 Thread briand
Paul Vixie wrote: the competing visions as i understand them are random-prefix ULA-C makes it impossible to postprocess one's log files on computers outside the connectivity realm where they were gathered, makes recourse against spammers and ddos-for-hire crews even harder, and moves the

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt

2007-07-02 Thread Scott Leibrand
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One comment I neglected to make in my previous response was, that encouraging the use of PI, even when used on the far side of PA NAT, means that the identity of (and NOC contact info for) anyone who accidentally leaks packets with a source for which there is no route,

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt

2007-07-02 Thread Paul Vixie
The interesting thing is, one person's PI is another person's PA. By that I mean, that the difference between PI and PA, is subjective. yes. The general idea is that the bulk of address assignments used should be, one would expect and hope, PA, and aggregated, into large assignments of PI

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt

2007-07-02 Thread Paul Vixie
... all of this ignores the fact that, architecturally, NATs have been rejected as bad for end-to-end connectivity. To minimize problems caused by NAT, it would probably be better to use autoconfiguration (stateless or DHCP) to assign PA addresses to hosts (in addition to any non- globally-