Re: Hash function comparisons for flow label generation

2012-03-06 Thread Fernando Gont
Hi, Brian, On 03/06/2012 11:09 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > It will get an official library handle soon, but here is an ad hoc > URL to be going on with: > > http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~brian/flowhashRep.pdf > > If you don't want to read it, here's the conclusion: the > FNV1a-32 algorithm, w

Hash function comparisons for flow label generation

2012-03-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi 6man, I've just filed a technical report on some work we've done on actual performance of certain non-cryptographic hash functions, when used to generate flow labels for real-world IPv6 traffic traces from four different sites. It will get an official library handle soon, but here is an ad hoc

Re: 6MAN WG Last Call: draft-ietf-6man-uri-zoneid-00.txt

2012-03-06 Thread Kerry Lynn
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote: > Given Bill's draft, we may not have to argue this, but: > > On Mar 6, 2012, at 01:15, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > >> The ABNF does not describe the produced (encoded) >> URI. > > That is certainly *not* my understanding of RFC 3986. > > (It i

Re: 6MAN WG Last Call: draft-ietf-6man-uri-zoneid-00.txt

2012-03-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-03-07 11:26, Carsten Bormann wrote: > On Mar 6, 2012, at 23:08, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > >> Was there a real reason that you went for this? >> IPv6zone-id = 1*( unreserved / sub-delims / ":" ) > > I'm not Bill, but RFC 3986 says: > > IPvFuture = "v" 1*HEXDIG "." 1*( unreserved

Re: 6MAN WG Last Call: draft-ietf-6man-uri-zoneid-00.txt

2012-03-06 Thread Carsten Bormann
Given Bill's draft, we may not have to argue this, but: On Mar 6, 2012, at 01:15, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > The ABNF does not describe the produced (encoded) > URI. That is certainly *not* my understanding of RFC 3986. (It is true that a number of real-word implementations allow pct-encoded in

Re: 6MAN WG Last Call: draft-ietf-6man-uri-zoneid-00.txt

2012-03-06 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Mar 6, 2012, at 23:08, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Was there a real reason that you went for this? > IPv6zone-id = 1*( unreserved / sub-delims / ":" ) I'm not Bill, but RFC 3986 says: IPvFuture = "v" 1*HEXDIG "." 1*( unreserved / sub-delims / ":" ) So you can't go outside that space w

Re: 6MAN WG Last Call: draft-ietf-6man-uri-zoneid-00.txt

2012-03-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi Bill, On 2012-03-07 01:08, Bill Fenner wrote: > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Brian E Carpenter > wrote: >> Carsten, >> >> On 2012-03-06 12:22, Carsten Bormann wrote: >>> On Mar 6, 2012, at 00:00, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >>> No, I think it's exactly *not* confused on this point. There'

Re: New Version Notification for draft-tsou-6man-hbh-header-update-00.txt

2012-03-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, > As we mentioned in the draft, only Jumbo-gram and MLd options apart > from the padding options can be inserted in Hop-By-Hop header. I don't understand this statement. MLD is a subset of Router Alert, and various other HbH options are defined: 0x26 Quick-Start [RFC4782] 0x7 CALIPSO [RFC5

Re: 6MAN WG Last Call: draft-ietf-6man-uri-zoneid-00.txt

2012-03-06 Thread Bill Fenner
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Carsten, > > On 2012-03-06 12:22, Carsten Bormann wrote: >> On Mar 6, 2012, at 00:00, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >> >>> No, I think it's exactly *not* confused on this point. There's >>> a distinction between the idealised URI and the produc