RE: addrsel: privacy addresses within/out of a site

2011-01-05 Thread Suresh Krishnan
Hi Pekka, Operational input: when discussing the use of RFC4941 (privacy) addresses with our LAN/workstation admins, it seemed as if there would be great benefit from being able to specify an RFC3484 rule which would in essence say: do not use privacy addresses when communicating inside

RE: I-D Action:draft-ietf-6man-exthdr-01.txt

2011-01-05 Thread Suresh Krishnan
Hi Joel, -Original Message- From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Joel M. Halpern Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 12:26 PM To: Fernando Gont Cc: ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: I-D Action:draft-ietf-6man-exthdr-01.txt Then what about if we forget

Re: I-D Action:draft-ietf-6man-exthdr-01.txt

2011-01-05 Thread Joel M. Halpern
For clarity, in terms of the pieces of your original note: I consider (a), specifying the format at least to the level of requiring TLV encoding, to be a good idea. I do not see any particular advantage in (b), allocating a code point, but I can live with it if the WG wants it. And (c),

Re: I-D Action:draft-ietf-6man-exthdr-01.txt

2011-01-05 Thread RJ Atkinson
On 05 Jan 2011, at 05:12 , Suresh Krishnan wrote: I'm up for it :-). In fact I already suggested the meat in http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipv6/current/msg13207.html RFC2460 allows the use of both extension headers and destination options in order to encode optional destination

RE: I-D Action:draft-ietf-6man-exthdr-01.txt

2011-01-05 Thread RJ Atkinson
Earlier, Manav wrote: Assume you are the end host that wants to prioritize certain packets or wants to implement Access control lists (ACLs). In the absence of this extension a router cannot apply ACLs as it will never know how to parse the packet in case it comes across an unknown

Re: I-D Action:draft-ietf-6man-exthdr-01.txt

2011-01-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-01-06 02:15, RJ Atkinson wrote: ... A) Prohibiting new IPv6 Extension Headers outright, as Joel has repeatedly suggested. This removes the narrow case where RFC-2460 allows Extension Headers, so the I-D would be an Update to RFC-2460. My reaction is that this is going too

Re: I-D Action:draft-ietf-6man-exthdr-01.txt

2011-01-05 Thread RJ Atkinson
On 05 Jan 2011, at 15:15 , Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2011-01-06 02:15, RJ Atkinson wrote: ... A) Prohibiting new IPv6 Extension Headers outright, as Joel has repeatedly suggested. This removes the narrow case where RFC-2460 allows Extension Headers, so the I-D would be an Update