Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-09 Thread Tim Chown
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:41:57PM -0800, Alain Durand wrote: I'd suggest to not publish any rationale and simply say something like: 4.4 DNS Issues At the present time and PTR records for locally assigned local IPv6 addresses are not recommended to be installed in the

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Bill, this is my last go on this. Not that I specially want to leave you the last word, but if you don't get what I'm saying after all this, it's pointless to continue. Below... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:33:28AM +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-09 Thread Bill Manning
On Dec 9, 2004, at 5:52, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Bill, this is my last go on this. Not that I specially want to leave you the last word, but if you don't get what I'm saying after all this, it's pointless to continue. Below... we agree to disagree. only history will tell if the IESG is making

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-09 Thread Margaret Wasserman
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:27:50AM -0500, Brian Haberman wrote: I agree that it is a problem, but not one specific to ULAs. Indeed, it's the dont-publish-unreachables's draft space... but that one never reached consensus or thus publication. Right. And, while I personally agree with the

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-09 Thread Brian Haberman
WG chair hat on Please note that I am the shepherding chair for this document. I have gone through the mailing list discussions on this document several times. Everyone should note that this document has been through WG Last Call, IESG Review, and IETF Last Call. Given the level of reviews and

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I agree with Bob about the current draft; I still believe it will be much better to discuss the DNS issues in depth in a separate (dnsops) document. My piece of text was intended in that context. Brian Bob Hinden wrote: Hi, OK. Lot of shouting since this was sent but not much new text. How

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Stephen Sprunk wrote: ... also imo - this whole idea is a clear and present danger to the Internet (assuming that IPv6 gets general deployment) I disagree. The risk of these non-aggregatable prefixes appearing in the default-free BGP4 table in exchange for lots of money is the same as the risk of

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Bill Manning wrote: On Dec 7, 2004, at 7:44, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Bill Manning wrote: On Dec 6, 2004, at 10:31, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Dan Lanciani wrote: Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |+Advertising locally assigned ULA records in the global DNS is |+MUST NOT occur as

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-08 Thread bmanning
Bill, you could do that if the prefixes are *routed* but that is not going to be the case if the ULA spec is followed, except for private routing arrangements. Since the spec says they MUST NOT be globally routed, it seems entirely rational to apply the same rule to your zone files. But as I

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, you could do that if the prefixes are *routed* but that is not going to be the case if the ULA spec is followed, except for private routing arrangements. Since the spec says they MUST NOT be globally routed, it seems entirely rational to apply the same rule to your

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-08 Thread bmanning
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:33:28AM +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, you could do that if the prefixes are *routed* but that is not going to be the case if the ULA spec is followed, except for private routing arrangements. Since the spec says they MUST NOT be

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-08 Thread Brian Haberman
On Dec 7, 2004, at 18:46, Alain Durand wrote: On Dec 7, 2004, at 1:23 PM, Bob Hinden wrote: While I am sure everyone in this discussion has read the DNS text in the current draft, here it is just in case: 4.4 DNS Issues At the present time and PTR records for locally assigned local

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-08 Thread Tim Chown
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:27:50AM -0500, Brian Haberman wrote: I agree that it is a problem, but not one specific to ULAs. Indeed, it's the dont-publish-unreachables's draft space... but that one never reached consensus or thus publication. Tim

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-08 Thread Brian Haberman
On Dec 7, 2004, at 17:25, Mark Andrews wrote: Hi, OK. Lot of shouting since this was sent but not much new text. How about Locally assigned ULA records MUST NOT appear in the global DNS, since there is an extremely small probability that the corresponding addresses are not

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-08 Thread Mark Andrews
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Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-08 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Hi Mark, Thats why I said the DNS section was a cop out. The DNS information hadn't been collected, distilled and put on paper. I attempted to do that. * Don't publish ambigious addresses global. * It is unwise (but not wrong) to publish unreachable

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-08 Thread Erik Nordmark
Brian Haberman wrote: I don't see this as being specific to ULAs. As the above referenced draft points out, this can happen with a mix of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. We have RFC 3484 which rationalizes the choice between IPv4 and IPv6 and as long as those are all global addresses the intent is that

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-08 Thread Mark Andrews
Hi Mark, Thats why I said the DNS section was a cop out. The DNS information hadn't been collected, distilled and put on paper. I attempted to do that. * Don't publish ambigious addresses global. * It is unwise (but not wrong) to publish unreachable

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-08 Thread Alain Durand
On Dec 8, 2004, at 6:27 AM, Brian Haberman wrote: This is unfortunately not the only concern. Actually, i would even say this is a somehow minor issue, as the risk of collision is small. The real concern is similar to what is explain in the v6ops IPv6onbydefault draft. Say that a well know host

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-07 Thread Bill Manning
Publishing AMBIGIOUS addresses in the GLOBAL DNS is WRONG. If you need to publish them in the DNS you need to use a split DNS configuration. This is no different to how we handle RFS 1918 address. They don't get published in the GLOBAL DNS because they

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-07 Thread Bill Manning
On Dec 6, 2004, at 10:31, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Dan Lanciani wrote: Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |+Advertising locally assigned ULA records in the global DNS is |+MUST NOT occur as they are not globally unique and will lead |+to unexpected connections. I strongly

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Bill Manning wrote: On Dec 6, 2004, at 10:31, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Dan Lanciani wrote: Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |+Advertising locally assigned ULA records in the global DNS is |+MUST NOT occur as they are not globally unique and will lead |+to unexpected

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-07 Thread Scott Bradner
Brian sez: Bill, you could do that if the prefixes are *routed* but that is not going to be the case if the ULA spec is followed, except for private routing arrangements. Since the spec says they MUST NOT be globally routed, imo - much wishful thinking also imo - this whole idea is a

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Scott Bradner wrote: Brian sez: Bill, you could do that if the prefixes are *routed* but that is not going to be the case if the ULA spec is followed, except for private routing arrangements. Since the spec says they MUST NOT be globally routed, imo - much wishful thinking My point is simply

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-07 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scott Bradner wrote: Brian sez: Bill, you could do that if the prefixes are *routed* but that is not going to be the case if the ULA spec is followed, except for private routing arrangements. Since the spec says they MUST NOT be globally routed, imo -

RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-07 Thread Dalberg, Stevin J
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian E Carpenter Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 1:17 AM To: Daniel Senie Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt Daniel Senie wrote: At 04:31 AM 12/6/2004, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Dan Lanciani wrote: Mark Andrews [EMAIL

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-07 Thread Bob Hinden
Hi, OK. Lot of shouting since this was sent but not much new text. How about Locally assigned ULA records MUST NOT appear in the global DNS, since there is an extremely small probability that the corresponding addresses are not unique. Even though these addresses will be

RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-07 Thread Manfredi, Albert E
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 4:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt Hi, OK. Lot of shouting since this was sent but not much new text. How about Locally assigned ULA records MUST NOT appear

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-07 Thread Mark Andrews
Hi, OK. Lot of shouting since this was sent but not much new text. How about Locally assigned ULA records MUST NOT appear in the global DNS, since there is an extremely small probability that the corresponding addresses are not unique. Even though these addresses

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-07 Thread Bob Hinden
Scott, There are other things we are doing (renumbering procedures, multi6, the NAP draft) to try and deflect this danger, but ULAs don't increase it. we disagree - I think they are an attractive nuisance (to use a pseudo-legal term) and we (the IETF) will rue the day that we approve this idea I

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-07 Thread Bill Manning
On Dec 7, 2004, at 7:44, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Bill Manning wrote: On Dec 6, 2004, at 10:31, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Dan Lanciani wrote: Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |+Advertising locally assigned ULA records in the global DNS is |+MUST NOT occur as they are not globally

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-07 Thread Bill Manning
On Dec 7, 2004, at 12:58, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Thus spake Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scott Bradner wrote: Brian sez: Bill, you could do that if the prefixes are *routed* but that is not going to be the case if the ULA spec is followed, except for private routing arrangements. Since the

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-07 Thread Daniel Senie
At 04:23 PM 12/7/2004, Bob Hinden wrote: Hi, OK. Lot of shouting since this was sent but not much new text. How about Locally assigned ULA records MUST NOT appear in the global DNS, since there is an extremely small probability that the corresponding addresses are not unique. Even

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-07 Thread Alain Durand
On Dec 7, 2004, at 1:23 PM, Bob Hinden wrote: While I am sure everyone in this discussion has read the DNS text in the current draft, here it is just in case: 4.4 DNS Issues At the present time and PTR records for locally assigned local IPv6 addresses are not recommended to be

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-06 Thread Daniel Senie
At 05:45 PM 12/4/2004, Mark Andrews wrote: If ISC was to publish in the DNS www.isc.org.10M IN 2001:4f8:0:2::d ; exists today www.isc.org.10M IN FC01:4f8:0:2::d and you happened to have a machine with local addresses

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-06 Thread Mark Andrews
At 05:45 PM 12/4/2004, Mark Andrews wrote: If ISC was to publish in the DNS www.isc.org.10M IN 2001:4f8:0:2::d ; exists today www.isc.org.10M IN FC01:4f8:0:2::d and you happened to have a machine with

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dan Lanciani wrote: Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |+Advertising locally assigned ULA records in the global DNS is |+MUST NOT occur as they are not globally unique and will lead |+to unexpected connections. I strongly object to making this a MUST NOT, ... OK. Lot of

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-06 Thread Daniel Senie
At 04:31 AM 12/6/2004, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Dan Lanciani wrote: Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |+Advertising locally assigned ULA records in the global DNS is |+MUST NOT occur as they are not globally unique and will lead |+to unexpected connections. I strongly object

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-04 Thread Dan Lanciani
Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | | Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | | | | Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | | | | | |+Advertising locally assigned ULA records in the global DNS i | s | | | |+MUST NOT occur as they

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-04 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Dan Lanciani [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If it in the global DNS is in NOT your DNS. It is everybodies. What are you talking about? The data in my DNS resides in my servers or in servers that I contract to hold it. You don't see it unless you query those servers. | If you want to put it in

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-04 Thread Mark Andrews
If ISC was to publish in the DNS www.isc.org.10M IN 2001:4f8:0:2::d ; exists today www.isc.org.10M IN FC01:4f8:0:2::d and you happened to have a machine with local addresses FC01:4f8:0:2::d. You would be

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-04 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] If ISC was to publish in the DNS www.isc.org.10M IN 2001:4f8:0:2::d ; exists today www.isc.org.10M IN FC01:4f8:0:2::d and you happened to have a machine with local addresses FC01:4f8:0:2::d. You would be unable to

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-04 Thread Mark Andrews
Thus spake Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] If ISC was to publish in the DNS www.isc.org.10M IN 2001:4f8:0:2::d ; exists today www.isc.org.10M IN FC01:4f8:0:2::d and you happened to have a machine with local addresses FC01:4f8:0:2::d.

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-03 Thread Tim Chown
Hi, Can I also add we have some discussion on this issue in the (now obsolete) draft draft-ietf-dnsop-dontpublish-unreachable-03, which can be found at: http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-ietf-dnsop-dontpublish-unreachable-03.txt After Washington IETF, a couple of us (at least myself and

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-03 Thread Dan Lanciani
Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |+Advertising locally assigned ULA records in the global DNS is |+MUST NOT occur as they are not globally unique and will lead |+to unexpected connections. I strongly object to making this a MUST NOT, especially with the growing uncertainty

RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-03 Thread Brian McGehee
Lanciani Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 12:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |+Advertising locally assigned ULA records in the global DNS is |+MUST NOT occur as they are not globally

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-03 Thread Mark Andrews
Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |+Advertising locally assigned ULA records in the global DNS is |+MUST NOT occur as they are not globally unique and will lead |+to unexpected connections. I strongly object to making this a MUST NOT, especially with the growing

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-03 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Brian McGehee [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have to agree with this MUST NOT. |+Advertising locally assigned ULA records in the global DNS |+MUST NOT occur as they are not globally unique and will lead |+to unexpected connections. Although there is a good chance that someone else

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-03 Thread Dan Lanciani
Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | |+Advertising locally assigned ULA records in the global DNS is | |+MUST NOT occur as they are not globally unique and will lead | |+to unexpected connections. | | I strongly object to making this

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-03 Thread Mark Andrews
Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | |+Advertising locally assigned ULA records in the global DNS is | |+MUST NOT occur as they are not globally unique and will lead | |+to unexpected connections. | | I strongly object to

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-03 Thread Dan Lanciani
Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | | Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | | | |+Advertising locally assigned ULA records in the global DNS is | | |+MUST NOT occur as they are not globally unique and will lead | | |+to

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-03 Thread Mark Andrews
Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | | Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | | | |+Advertising locally assigned ULA records in the global DNS i s | | |+MUST NOT occur as they are not globally unique and will lead | | |+

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-02 Thread Bob Hinden
Mark, At 01:22 PM 12/01/2004, Mark Andrews wrote: It costs real money to absorb the load. Well understood. But it will be a while before this goes mainstream. The point is that we really will want to legitimise what as112 will have to do. To tell the users of these addresses

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Mark, I don't think wait and see is a cop-out, actually. Since these addresses are by definition useless on the Internet in general, I think local pragmatic decision taking is the best way to find out what we *should* recommend. It's not obvious to me that a typical corporate deployment of ULAs

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-01 Thread Mark Andrews
Mark, I don't think wait and see is a cop-out, actually. Since these addresses are by definition useless on the Internet in general, I think local pragmatic decision taking is the best way to find out what we *should* recommend. It's not obvious to me that a typical corporate deployment

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-12-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
It costs real money to absorb the load. Well understood. But it will be a while before this goes mainstream. Brian Mark Andrews wrote: Mark, I don't think wait and see is a cop-out, actually. Since these addresses are by definition useless on the Internet in general, I think local pragmatic

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-11-30 Thread Bob Hinden
Mark, At 03:16 PM 11/29/2004, Mark Andrews wrote: Section 4.4 DNS Issues This sections appears to be a real cop out. It is perfectly natural for clients to want to make queries and have these addresses returned from the DNS. There is a wide range of views on what is

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-11-29 Thread Bob Hinden
This draft is a work item of the IP Version 6 Working Group Working Group of the IETF. Title : Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses Author(s) : R. Hinden, B. Haberman Filename: draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt Pages : 17

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

2004-11-29 Thread Mark Andrews
Section 4.4 DNS Issues This sections appears to be a real cop out. It is perfectly natural for clients to want to make queries and have these addresses returned from the DNS. The problem is that there is no co-ordinating authority for