Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Owen DeLong
You're looking at the internet of today. Think about 10, 15, 20 years out when everything you buy at the grocery store has an IP address and most audio amplifiers act as routers to head-end the other entertainment devices in the cluster. Think about a time when HDMI is supplanted by

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 2, 2013, at 11:21 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.commailto:o...@delong.com wrote: Yes. A fine engineering solution for demonstration purposes, but not a good solution for us to recommend for deployment in the long term. Because it commits wide prefixes to sub-delegations, it wastes

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 2, 2013, at 11:24 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.commailto:o...@delong.com wrote: No, there is no use case where this is better than doing the delegations from the router that received the initial delegation (since we're apparently just arguing by vigorous assertion). Is your opinion. I

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 2, 2013, at 11:26 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.commailto:o...@delong.com wrote: My point is that it should be up to the person running the home net (or other end site) to decide what is better for their site and that we should not be making the choice for them. So, to recap, RIR policies

Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-09.txt

2013-06-03 Thread Fernando Gont
Folks, This version of the I-D is meant to address feedback from Alissa Cooper, Dave Thaler, and Tom Petch. For the most part, these are the changes: * A new appendix has been added, detailing the types of attacks we want to mitigate. * I've added some text noting that an attacker has a

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 3, 2013, at 7:27 AM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: On Jun 2, 2013, at 11:21 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: Yes. A fine engineering solution for demonstration purposes, but not a good solution for us to recommend for deployment in the long term. Because it

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 3, 2013, at 7:32 AM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: On Jun 2, 2013, at 11:24 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: No, there is no use case where this is better than doing the delegations from the router that received the initial delegation (since we're apparently just

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Joel M. Halpern
If I am reading this correctly, in the end this is riven by the fact that existing boxes can easily filter on addresses (although it will take a lot of filters), but can not apply ACLs to DSCPs or extension headers? It seems like what we need is a draft that clearly explains why trying to

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Bless, Roland (TM)
Hi, On 31.05.2013 11:46, Ray Hunter wrote: But why are people coming up with these schemes for encoding semantics in the address prefixes in the first place? That's what I'd like to understand first and foremost: what lack of functionality is motivating/forcing these people to adopt such

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 3, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.commailto:o...@delong.com wrote: I believe that making bits available for greater flexibility in consumer networking is a good use of bits. I believe that stealing bits from the consumer for purposes of allowing the provider to overload the

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 3, 2013, at 9:22 AM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: On Jun 3, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: I believe that making bits available for greater flexibility in consumer networking is a good use of bits. I believe that stealing bits from the consumer for

RE: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Vízdal Aleš
-Original Message- From: v6ops-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:v6ops-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Joel M. Halpern Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 4:07 PM To: Sheng Jiang Cc: v6...@ietf.org; draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-pre...@tools.ietf.org; ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Sheng Jiang
Hi, Shane, Actually, we do assume the SP deploys unicast filters to drop incoming packets with illegitimate source IP address/prefix. After then, the packets become trusted. It is the filter who makes sure the prefix right. The filter should link back to other states of the user, like user

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Sheng Jiang
I have to say the hierarchical assignment is a such great way to waste address space or prefix bit. I cannot real see much benefits or use cases of it. Why may home site 3 subordinate routers? How many subnets or devices may a /48 prefix serve in this model? Cheers, Sheng On 3 June 2013 00:39,

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread manning bill
On 2June2013Sunday, at 16:47, Sander Steffann wrote: On 03/06/2013 11:06, manning bill wrote: /48's are a horrible policy - one should only advertise what one is actually using. Now *that* would cause a nice fragmented DFZ... Sander I'm going to inject a route. One route. why do

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Sander Steffann
On 2June2013Sunday, at 16:47, Sander Steffann wrote: On 03/06/2013 11:06, manning bill wrote: /48's are a horrible policy - one should only advertise what one is actually using. Now *that* would cause a nice fragmented DFZ... Sander I'm going to inject a route. One route. why do

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread manning bill
On 3June2013Monday, at 8:51, Sander Steffann wrote: On 2June2013Sunday, at 16:47, Sander Steffann wrote: On 03/06/2013 11:06, manning bill wrote: /48's are a horrible policy - one should only advertise what one is actually using. Now *that* would cause a nice fragmented DFZ... Sander

RE: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Manfredi, Albert E
-Original Message- From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of manning bill Pragmatically, much of the IPv6 protocol/application development has ignored half the 128bit space and treats IPv6 as a 64bit address platform. Exactly. It's time to

Protocol Action: 'Security Implications of IPv6 Fragmentation with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-6man-nd-extension-headers-05.txt)

2013-06-03 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Security Implications of IPv6 Fragmentation with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery' (draft-ietf-6man-nd-extension-headers-05.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group. The IESG contact persons are

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 04/06/2013 03:44, manning bill wrote: On 2June2013Sunday, at 16:47, Sander Steffann wrote: On 03/06/2013 11:06, manning bill wrote: /48's are a horrible policy - one should only advertise what one is actually using. Now *that* would cause a nice fragmented DFZ... Sander I'm going

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Mark Smith
- Original Message - From: Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com To: manning bill bmann...@isi.edu Cc: ipv6@ietf.org; v6...@ietf.org WG v6...@ietf.org Sent: Tuesday, 4 June 2013 6:27 AM Subject: Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Andrew McGregor
That's completely true; many switch chips cannot route on longer than /64 prefixes, so attempting to do so starts to either heat up the software slow path, or consume ACL entries, or is simply not supported at all. While this is arguably a bug, it is also pretty much ubiquitous in the current

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread joel jaeggli
On 6/3/13 3:59 PM, Andrew McGregor wrote: That's completely true; many switch chips cannot route on longer than /64 prefixes, so attempting to do so starts to either heat up the software slow path, or consume ACL entries, or is simply not supported at all. While this is arguably a bug, it is

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Andrew McGregor
Ok maybe I'm overstating it a bit... but there are a lot of those chips out there, and they are painful. On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 9:08 AM, joel jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: On 6/3/13 3:59 PM, Andrew McGregor wrote: That's completely true; many switch chips cannot route on longer than /64

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Sheng Jiang
This looks a typical double standard for me. You are willing to allow homenet (the network operator in this case is subscribers) to play semantic in their networks with the bits from 48 to 63, while you disallow ISPs to set the semantic bits in their networks with the bits from 20 to 48 or 56. You

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Sheng Jiang
Exactly. I agree we should not block the possibility for the future. However, I don't agree we should block the current requirements to make the way for the uncertainties of future. We should first serve the needs today, then we the better current network will become a better fundamental for our

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Sheng Jiang
Hi, Roland, Thanks for your comments. Yes, the authors will restructure this draft - making it more an analysis draft rather than a proposal. The pitfalls will be an very important part for a neutral analysis. Cheers, Sheng On 3 June 2013 22:09, Bless, Roland (TM) roland.bl...@kit.edu wrote:

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Sheng Jiang
They are stealing from the consumer's flexibility to provide (questionable) functionality to the provider. What's the problem if the consumer get /48 as you want, and providers play their 28 bits (bit 20~47)? For me, the consumer flexibility looks more uncertain although I don't have much

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Vízdal Aleš ales.viz...@t-mobile.czwrote: If I am reading this correctly, in the end this is riven by the fact that existing boxes can easily filter on addresses (although it will take a lot of filters), but can not apply ACLs to DSCPs or extension

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Sheng Jiang shengji...@gmail.com wrote: They are stealing from the consumer's flexibility to provide (questionable) functionality to the provider. What's the problem if the consumer get /48 as you want, and providers play their 28 bits (bit 20~47)? The

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Ivan Pepelnjak
Read the recent p2p /64 thread of ipv6-ops cluenet mailing list = Mistyped and autocorrected on a clunky virtual keyboard On 4. jun. 2013, at 01:08, joel jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: On 6/3/13 3:59 PM, Andrew McGregor wrote: That's completely true; many switch chips cannot route on

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread George Michaelson
Just to remind people, RIR policy is community driven. If the operations people feel they need a policy for IPv6 allocations and assignments which takes accounts of semantic bits, they can derive consensus driven policies to do it. Its not done in the IETF. There might be an issue with how it

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 3, 2013, at 17:59 , Sheng Jiang shengji...@gmail.com wrote: This looks a typical double standard for me. You are willing to allow homenet (the network operator in this case is subscribers) to play semantic in their networks with the bits from 48 to 63, while you disallow ISPs to set

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread Sheng Jiang
Semantic addresses is beyond the access control. For example, you can compare the security semantic bits of source and destination addresses. If they belong to different security domain, and you have a policy they should not communicate each other, you could drop the packet. Sheng On 4 June

Re: [v6ops] Could IPv6 address be more than locator?//draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03

2013-06-03 Thread joel jaeggli
On 6/3/13 7:11 PM, Ivan Pepelnjak wrote: Read the recent p2p /64 thread of ipv6-ops cluenet mailing list You are refering to: http://lists.cluenet.de/pipermail/ipv6-ops/2013-June/thread.html I stand by my statement... The inability to properly apply ACLs on the 3750 for routes longer than