Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-26 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: Please review and comment. => I support the proposal. Regards [EMAIL PROTECTED] IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-23 Thread Bob Hinden
Iljitsch, At 01:22 AM 03/23/2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 22-mrt-05, at 19:11, Bob Hinden wrote: I like the idea of putting each type of address in a separate section, but not so about adding a separate section for the deprecation. As a compromise, how about if I add the separate section

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-23 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 22-mrt-05, at 19:11, Bob Hinden wrote: I like the idea of putting each type of address in a separate section, but not so about adding a separate section for the deprecation. As a compromise, how about if I add the separate section for each type and then put the deprecation text in the sectio

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kurt Erik Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 2005-03-17, at 15.02, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > > > Kurtis Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Shouldn't we be a bit more explicit on what routers/hosts should do > > >> with > > >>

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-22 Thread Bob Hinden
Iljitsch, I submit that as someone who has English as a first language (right?) and who has been doing this for a long time, your perception of a clear standards text isn't the same as someone who is still strugling with the language and is new to all of this. Unless others think this is import

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-22 Thread Bob Hinden
Kurtis, > I don't think it is necessary as there wasn't any special handling > defined in this document for these addresses. Their handling falls > under the default rules for global unicast. So If I am an application that receives a packet with a deprecated IPv4-compatible address, I should just

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kurt Erik Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2005-03-17, at 15.02, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > Kurtis Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Shouldn't we be a bit more explicit on what routers/hosts should do > >> with > >> these addresses when found? > > > > We're already allowing f

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-22 Thread Markku Savela
> From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sure. But I am more worried of creating ambiguity with what > applications does when receiving IPv4 compatible addresses as source > addresses. If we are replying to them, we have the-facto not actually > deprecated them :-) There are many othe

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-22 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-17, at 15.02, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Kurtis Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Shouldn't we be a bit more explicit on what routers/hosts should do >> with >> these addresses when found? > > We're already allowing for multiple behav

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-22 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-17, at 18.47, Bob Hinden wrote: > Kurtis, > >> > New or updated implementations are not required to support this >> > address type. Existing implementations and deployments may >> continue >> > to use these addresses. >> >> S

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-22 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
Bob, On 22-mrt-05, at 1:43, Bob Hinden wrote: Now it doesn't say that IPv4-mapped addresses are also deprecated, but I'll promise you that a significant number of people are going to think that they are because of apparent guilt by association. The fact that the "IPv4-compatible" and "IPv4-mappe

AW: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address" - RFC3484

2005-03-22 Thread Grubmair Peter
Ipv4 compatible addresses also entered RFC3484 -default address selection. In this RFC a special label (3) Is defined for them. Will that text also be updated ? Best regards Peter IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ie

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-21 Thread Bob Hinden
Iljitsch, This part was never the problem. The problem is that immediately afterwards, it says: A second type of IPv6 address which holds an embedded IPv4 address is also defined. This address type is used to represent the addresses of IPv4 nodes as IPv6 addresses. This type of address

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-21 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 21-mrt-05, at 18:58, Bob Hinden wrote: I think it's important to spell out that IPv4-mapped addresses aren't being deprecated, along with a reference to where they're defined. I am reluctant to have the text describing the IPv4 Mapped addresses say they are "not deprecated" because I think it

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-21 Thread Bob Hinden
Brian, At 04:33 AM 03/21/2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote: ... So to my thinking it is listed as "Reserved by IETF" now and won't be reused without the IETF giving some direction to the IANA. Do think we need to do more than this? That is OK for me, but I think it needs to be noted in the IANA Con

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-21 Thread Bob Hinden
Iljitsch, At 03:53 AM 03/19/2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: I think it's important to spell out that IPv4-mapped addresses aren't being deprecated, along with a reference to where they're defined. I am reluctant to have the text describing the IPv4 Mapped addresses say they are "not deprecated

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Bob Hinden wrote: Brian, At 02:25 AM 03/18/2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Eric asks a good question. I think the chances that some implementers will choose to store IPv4 addresses in IPv6-sized structures is 100%. So I am strongly of the view that that the IPv4-compatible *format*, i.e. a ::/96 pre

RE: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-21 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Bob Hinden wrote: Some might argue (and argued in the past) that there should be some health warnings about the use of mapped addresses (e.g., a reference to now-published RFC4038), but IMHO that kind of text may be ill fit to the address architecture and is opening a can-of

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-19 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 16-mrt-05, at 20:46, Bob Hinden wrote: 2.5.5 IPv6 Addresses with Embedded IPv4 Addresses [...] A second type of IPv6 address which holds an embedded IPv4 address is also defined. This address type is used to represent the addresses of IPv4 nodes as IPv6 addresses. This type of addres

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-18 Thread Bob Hinden
Brian, At 02:25 AM 03/18/2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Eric asks a good question. I think the chances that some implementers will choose to store IPv4 addresses in IPv6-sized structures is 100%. So I am strongly of the view that that the IPv4-compatible *format*, i.e. a ::/96 prefix, needs to be r

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-18 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 11:25:57AM +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Eric asks a good question. > > I think the chances that some implementers will choose to store IPv4 > addresses in IPv6-sized structures is 100%. So I am strongly of the > view that that the IPv4-compatible *format*, i.e. a ::/96

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
L PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Margaret Wasserman Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:52 PM To: Bob Hinden; ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address" Hi Bob, Should there also be an upate to the IANA considerations section asking IANA to list

RE: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-17 Thread Bob Hinden
Pekka, While I would have liked to remove the mention of compatible addresses completely, deprecation as proposed by Bob is good enough for me. Thanks! Some might argue (and argued in the past) that there should be some health warnings about the use of mapped addresses (e.g., a reference to now-

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-17 Thread Bob Hinden
Kurtis, > New or updated implementations are not required to support this > address type. Existing implementations and deployments may continue > to use these addresses. Shouldn't we be a bit more explicit on what routers/hosts should do with these addresses when found? I don't think i

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-17 Thread Bob Hinden
Margaret, At 12:52 PM 03/16/2005, Margaret Wasserman wrote: Hi Bob, Should there also be an upate to the IANA considerations section asking IANA to list this allocation as deprecated? Good question, I had not thought about that. What is currently listed on the IANA pages for IPv6 address space (

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kurtis Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Bob Hinden wrote: > > New or updated implementations are not required to support this > > address type. Existing implementations and deployments may continue > > to use these addresses. > > Shouldn't we be a bit

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-17 Thread Kurtis Lindqvist
Bob, On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Bob Hinden wrote: > At last weeks IPv6 session in Minneapolis, the working group reached a > consensus to deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address". This email is > to verify this consensus on the mailing list Agree. and to review the

RE: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-17 Thread Jeroen Massar
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 23:58 +0200, Pekka Savola wrote: >On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Manfredi, Albert E wrote: >> Are RFC 2893 Para. 5.2 and 5.3 going to be updated accordingly? >> Otherwise, I have no objection. > >RFC2893 is going to be obsoleted any day now, by >draft-ietf-mech-v2-xx, so this is not a

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-16 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
>>>>> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:46:24 -0800, >>>>> Bob Hinden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > At last weeks IPv6 session in Minneapolis, the working group reached a > consensus to deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address". This email is > to

RE: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-16 Thread Pekka Savola
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Manfredi, Albert E wrote: Are RFC 2893 Para. 5.2 and 5.3 going to be updated accordingly? Otherwise, I have no objection. RFC2893 is going to be obsoleted any day now, by draft-ietf-mech-v2-xx, so this is not an issue. While I would have liked to remove the mention of compat

RE: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-16 Thread Gray, Eric
March 16, 2005 3:52 PM To: Bob Hinden; ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address" Hi Bob, Should there also be an upate to the IANA considerations section asking IANA to list this allocation as deprecated? Margaret At 11:46 AM -0800 3/16/05, Bob Hinde

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-16 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Hi Bob, Should there also be an upate to the IANA considerations section asking IANA to list this allocation as deprecated? Margaret At 11:46 AM -0800 3/16/05, Bob Hinden wrote: Hi, At last weeks IPv6 session in Minneapolis, the working group reached a consensus to deprecate the "

RE: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-16 Thread Manfredi, Albert E
Are RFC 2893 Para. 5.2 and 5.3 going to be updated accordingly? Otherwise, I have no objection. Bert > -Original Message- > From: Bob Hinden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 2:46 PM > To: ipv6@ietf.org > Subject: Deprecate the "IPv4-com

Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-16 Thread Bob Hinden
Hi, At last weeks IPv6 session in Minneapolis, the working group reached a consensus to deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address". This email is to verify this consensus on the mailing list and to review the proposed text to deprecate these address in the update to the IP