Re: AD Evaluation: draft-ietf-6man-ipv6-atomic-fragments

2012-12-20 Thread Fernando Gont
On 12/20/2012 03:04 PM, Templin, Fred L wrote: >> On 12/18/2012 04:13 PM, Templin, Fred L wrote: >>> I have a question about this document. Is a middlebox permitted >>> to fragment an "atomic" fragment before forwarding the packet >>> on to the next hop? If not, why not - after all, that's why the

Re: AD Evaluation: draft-ietf-6man-ipv6-atomic-fragments

2012-12-20 Thread Fernando Gont
Hi, Fred, On 12/19/2012 02:41 PM, Templin, Fred L wrote: > I am thinking of the case of links (e.g., tunnels) in the middle > of the network that must perform link adaptation in order to meet > the 1280 byte minimum IPv6 MTU. For example, if a tunnel is > configured over a link that has an MTU les

Re: Chairs review: draft-ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-01

2012-12-20 Thread Fernando Gont
Hosnieh, On 12/20/2012 06:06 PM, Rafiee, Hosnieh wrote: > Now the question is whether or not you are using the "lifetime" for this > IID or IP. If you are, then it is the same procedure as that for the RFC > privacy extension. The lifetime advertised in RA messages? - Of course. >>Nobody has e

Re: Chairs review: draft-ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-01

2012-12-20 Thread Fernando Gont
Bob, and Ole, Thanks so much for your detailed review! Please find my comments in-line On 12/20/2012 11:40 AM, Ole Troan wrote: > General comments: > -- > We do see the usefulness of a interface-id generation algorithm, that > results > in stable identifiers per IPv6 p

RE: Chairs review: draft-ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-01

2012-12-20 Thread Rafiee, Hosnieh
Correction to prior comment Ole and Bob: I do think that the extension to the Privacy Extension RFC is applicable here. ... IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/

RE: Chairs review: draft-ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-01

2012-12-20 Thread Rafiee, Hosnieh
Ole and Bob: I don't think that the extension to the Privacy Extension RFC is applicable here. Fernando: I think some of these comments were also made by Ole and Bob but, as I was so busy, I could not finish them and send them. Now the question is whether or not you are using the "lifetime" fo

Re: IIDs, u and g bits, and 4rd

2012-12-20 Thread Mark Smith
- Original Message - > From: Bob Hinden > To: Randy Bush > Cc: "ipv6@ietf.org List" ; Bob Hinden > Sent: Friday, 21 December 2012 1:47 AM > Subject: Re: IIDs, u and g bits, and 4rd > > Randy, > > On Dec 20, 2012, at 3:02 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > "The IID consists of N bits th

Re: IIDs, u and g bits, and 4rd

2012-12-20 Thread Ole Troan
Remi, [...] >> To make assertions about IP addresses based on the EUI-64 is to impose >> requirements that don't actually exist in IP. It's a little like saying that >> concrete MUST ("are required to") be grey because the rocks we use in it >> happen to be grey; no I can have concrete of othe

Re: IIDs, u and g bits, and 4rd

2012-12-20 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Dec 20, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Rémi Després wrote: >> The comment Brian is making refers to IP's requirements, which are that the >> IID used in a subnet by an interface must be unique within that subnet. > > This is a clear requirement, on which I think we all agree. > > It is worth noting here

RE: AD Evaluation: draft-ietf-6man-ipv6-atomic-fragments

2012-12-20 Thread Templin, Fred L
Hello again, Fernando, > -Original Message- > From: Fernando Gont [mailto:fg...@si6networks.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 12:00 PM > To: Templin, Fred L > Cc: draft-ietf-6man-ipv6-atomic-fragme...@tools.ietf.org; 6man WG > Subject: Re: AD Evaluation: draft-ietf-6man-ipv6-atomic-f

Re: IIDs, u and g bits, and 4rd

2012-12-20 Thread Rémi Després
Fred, Please see inline. 2012-12-20 à 17:32, "Fred Baker (fred)" : > > On Dec 20, 2012, at 12:54 AM, Rémi Després wrote: > >> Interface addresses at the link layer are specified by IEEE to be >> universally unique. > > Yes, and EIU-64 is one of several seeds from which an IID can be derived

Re: IIDs, u and g bits, and 4rd

2012-12-20 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Dec 20, 2012, at 12:54 AM, Rémi Després wrote: > Interface addresses at the link layer are specified by IEEE to be universally > unique. Yes, and EIU-64 is one of several seeds from which an IID can be derived. It's not the only one. The fact that an underlying technology provides an inte

Re: IIDs, u and g bits, and 4rd

2012-12-20 Thread Bless, Roland (TM)
Hi Rémi, On 20.12.2012 09:54, Rémi Després wrote: > Interface addresses at the link layer are specified by IEEE to be > universally unique. This has been effective fort link-layer > communication to need neither manual configuration nor a DAD-like > protocol at this layer. IEEE link layer address

Re: IIDs, u and g bits, and 4rd

2012-12-20 Thread Alexandru Petrescu
Le 20/12/2012 14:02, Randy Bush a écrit : "The IID consists of N bits that have no meaning; the only constraint Hmm.. how would this work with RFC5453 reserved IID space we already have for anycast addresses? is anyone aware of any deployment of the ipv6 invented anycast? In Mobile IPv6 the

Re: IIDs, u and g bits, and 4rd

2012-12-20 Thread Bob Hinden
Randy, On Dec 20, 2012, at 3:02 PM, Randy Bush wrote: >>> "The IID consists of N bits that have no meaning; the only constraint >> >> Hmm.. how would this work with RFC5453 reserved IID space we already >> have for anycast addresses? > > is anyone aware of any deployment of the ipv6 invented an

Chairs review: draft-ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-01

2012-12-20 Thread Ole Troan
all, the ADs have asked us to ensure that there are good review of documents in the working group, prior to them being advanced to the IESG. as a part of document last calls in the 6man working group, Bob and I want to try using volunteers and/or w.g. chair reviewers, that take specific responsib

Re: Use the IANA registry of RFC5453 for 4rd (was IIDs, u and g bits, and 4rd)

2012-12-20 Thread Rémi Després
2012-12-20 13:46, Ole Troan : >>> Also, is there any reason not to choose (for example) >>> FDFE:::-FDFE::: >>> which is near the existing anycast range ? >> >> No objection that I can see. >> Support for including this in the 6man answer. > > I think this is better than

Re: IIDs, u and g bits, and 4rd

2012-12-20 Thread Randy Bush
>> "The IID consists of N bits that have no meaning; the only constraint > > Hmm.. how would this work with RFC5453 reserved IID space we already > have for anycast addresses? is anyone aware of any deployment of the ipv6 invented anycast? like most ipv6 magic, i think it is ignored and regular

Re: Use the IANA registry of RFC5453 for 4rd (was IIDs, u and g bits, and 4rd)

2012-12-20 Thread Ole Troan
>> Also, is there any reason not to choose (for example) >> FDFE:::-FDFE::: >> which is near the existing anycast range ? > > No objection that I can see. > Support for including this in the 6man answer. I think this is better than making any assumption abut the u/g flags.

Re: Use the IANA registry of RFC5453 for 4rd (was IIDs, u and g bits, and 4rd)

2012-12-20 Thread Rémi Després
Le 2012-12-20 à 11:44, Brian E Carpenter a écrit : > Rémi, > > I think this might work, and is nicely orthogonal to my question > whether the u/g bits have any intrinsic value. > > One question though. You suggest > 0300:::-03FF::: > but I understand that 4rd needs 6 by

Re: Use the IANA registry of RFC5453 for 4rd (was IIDs, u and g bits, and 4rd)

2012-12-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Rémi, I think this might work, and is nicely orthogonal to my question whether the u/g bits have any intrinsic value. One question though. You suggest 0300:::-03FF::: but I understand that 4rd needs 6 bytes, not 7. Is there any reason you did not propose 0300:::

Use the IANA registry of RFC5453 for 4rd (was IIDs, u and g bits, and 4rd)

2012-12-20 Thread Rémi Després
Hello, chairs, - First a great thank you Jouni for for the reference to RFC 5453, which is perfectly relevant but had been ignored in this discussion. The good news is that, since an IANA registry for IID ranges has already been created, no new registry is needed for any new IID type, and in pa

Re: IIDs, u and g bits, and 4rd

2012-12-20 Thread Rémi Després
2012-12-19 21:27, "Bless, Roland (TM)" : > Hi Rémi, > > On 19.12.2012 18:59, Rémi Després wrote: > >> As is, the sentence misses that IIDs that have u=1 are expected to be >> universally unique. (This uniqueness is key to ensure that, as long > > I don't agree. From an IPv6 functional point o

Re: IIDs, u and g bits, and 4rd

2012-12-20 Thread Jouni Korhonen
On Dec 19, 2012, at 5:58 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > On 19/12/2012 14:44, Bless, Roland (TM) wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 19.12.2012 14:21, Rémi Després wrote: >>> Could we limit the 6man discussion to the question asked by Softwire, >>> i.e. whether new IID types can be defined, using u=g=1, wit

Re: IIDs, u and g bits, and 4rd

2012-12-20 Thread Rémi Després
2012-12-19 23:01, Roger Jørgensen : ... > if you read RFC4291 and section 2.5.1. you'll see the following two paragraphs > > IPv6 nodes are not required to validate that interface identifiers > created with modified EUI-64 tokens with the "u" bit set to universal > are unique. That's prec

Re: IIDs, u and g bits, and 4rd

2012-12-20 Thread sthaug
> > It seems to me with the benefit of hindsight that a fundamentally better > > approach would have been to reserve many more bits in the IID, or in RA > > PIO, to create mutually exclusive subspaces per assignment mechanism or > > per class of assignment mechanism, but that train has probably lef

Re: IIDs, u and g bits, and 4rd

2012-12-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Jouni, On 19/12/2012 21:19, Jouni Korhonen wrote: > On Dec 19, 2012, at 5:58 PM, Brian E Carpenter > wrote: > >> On 19/12/2012 14:44, Bless, Roland (TM) wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On 19.12.2012 14:21, Rémi Després wrote: Could we limit the 6man discussion to the question asked by Softwire, >>