Re: I-D Action:draft-mrw-6man-ulac-analysis-01.txt

2007-11-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
4.2. Wrong Way to Influence Registry Policy It has been argued that it is inappropriate and/or ineffective for the IETF to attempt to influence address registration policies through the publication of an RFC that creates a new address space with defined registration policies. That

Re: New Version Notification for draft-mrw-6man-ulac-analysis-00

2007-11-20 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Iljitsch van Beijnum On 12 nov 2007, at 15:53, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: If that happens (RIRs not having policies for using ULA), then IETF can ask IANA to create a new registry for that, and IANA need to do it, no choice against that IETF decision. I object to the assumption th

Re: Call for Agenda items

2007-11-20 Thread Brian Haberman
All, The current agenda is available on-line at: http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/07dec/agenda/6man.txt Regards, Brian Brian Haberman wrote: All, The 6man WG has a meeting slot during IETF 70 in Vancouver. The chairs are beginning to pull together the meeting agenda. If you have a

Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-mrw-6man-ulac-analysis-01

2007-11-20 Thread Margaret Wasserman
FYI -- A new version of my ULA-C Analysis draft, updated based on recent discussions. Margaret Begin forwarded message: From: IETF I-D Submission Tool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: November 20, 2007 12:26:44 PM EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New Version Notification for draft-mrw-6man-ulac

Re: how to select the sender ipv6 address from the list of ipv6 address assinged to the interace

2007-11-20 Thread Erik Kline
"man ping6"? -I interface address Set source address to specified interface address. Argument may be numeric IP address or name of device. When pinging IPv6 link- local address this option is required. That's a capital "i", fwiw. YMMV. On 11/20/

Re: New Version Notification for draft-mrw-6man-ulac-analysis-00

2007-11-20 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 20 nov 2007, at 13:04, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now the DNS must know about routing? Why would the DNS need to know anything about routing? ULA addressing is intended for local use. Right, so the DNS needs to know what's local and what isn't. (Since my own serve

Re: draft-baker-6man-multiprefix-default-route-00.txt is a newdraft

2007-11-20 Thread James Carlson
Iljitsch van Beijnum writes: > On 13 nov 2007, at 13:46, James Carlson wrote: > works. (Such as the shim6 REAP protocol is designed to do although > REAP doesn't know about routes.) So it should clearly be possible to > send packets that don't conform to the source address / route > alignment

RE: New Version Notification for draft-mrw-6man-ulac-analysis-00

2007-11-20 Thread michael.dillon
> > Now you might want to configure your DNS proxy (resursive > server) to > > not pass through records with ULA addresses unless > they are from > > known sources with whom you have a prior arrangement. > > But that is a different issue. > > Now the DNS must know about routing? Why woul

Re: New Version Notification for draft-mrw-6man-ulac-analysis-00

2007-11-20 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 20 nov 2007, at 12:41, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now you might want to configure your DNS proxy (resursive server) to not pass through records with ULA addresses unless they are from known sources with whom you have a prior arrangement. But that is a different issu

RE: New Version Notification for draft-mrw-6man-ulac-analysis-00

2007-11-20 Thread michael.dillon
> In practice, what are you going to do when you do a DNS > lookup for some random domain name and you get a ULA address? > Ignore it because you know it's unreachable? Try to send a > packet anyway? You have to send a packet because that is the only way to discover if it is reachable or not.

RE: New Version Notification for draft-mrw-6man-ulac-analysis-00

2007-11-20 Thread michael.dillon
> This sounds like "provider independent" which is a very > different ballgame. > > The point of ULAs is not that they are independent of any > particular provider, they're independent of any and all > connectivity to the internet at large. I agree that a ULA-C RFC must state that these addre

Re: New Version Notification for draft-mrw-6man-ulac-analysis-00

2007-11-20 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 13 nov 2007, at 2:36, Margaret Wasserman wrote: I think that Geoff Huston has made the same (or a similar) argument when he has indicated that it is architecturally unsound to associate routing properties with a specific address block. There is no inherent guarantee that any registry-ass

Re: New Version Notification for draft-mrw-6man-ulac-analysis-00

2007-11-20 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 12 nov 2007, at 15:53, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: If that happens (RIRs not having policies for using ULA), then IETF can ask IANA to create a new registry for that, and IANA need to do it, no choice against that IETF decision. I object to the assumption that ULAs would be subject to R

Re: New Version Notification for draft-mrw-6man-ulac-analysis-00

2007-11-20 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 12 nov 2007, at 4:46, Margaret Wasserman wrote: I wrote this draft to try to capture the major arguments for and against the definition of ULA-Cs. Please let me know if I've gotten anything wrong, or if there are any major arguments (in either direction) that I've missed. Not sure how

Re: draft-baker-6man-multiprefix-default-route-00.txt is a newdraft

2007-11-20 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 13 nov 2007, at 13:46, James Carlson wrote: Matter of fact, it seems to address something that also occurs with IPv4, with multihomed hosts. And that apparently, some OSs screw up royally. I don't agree that those OSes "screw up royally." They are, in fact, doing what their users *tell* t

how to select the sender ipv6 address from the list of ipv6 address assinged to the interace

2007-11-20 Thread Anjali Gajendragadkar
The interface of my linux machine show three addresses 1. Static IPv6 address 2. Statless autoconfigured IPv6 address (using RA) 3. Link local address when i initiate a ping from this machine static address is selected as the source for the ping command is there a way to change source address used

Re: Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-mrw-6man-ulac-analysis-00

2007-11-20 Thread Per Heldal
On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 15:28 +1300, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > On 2007-11-12 22:15, Per Heldal wrote: > > Regardless of the listed arguments one may also question IETFs role in > > the definition of (any) ULA as there is no technical reason why such an > > address-block must be tagged 'special'. >