Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-07 Thread Rémi Després
Le 2013-02-07 à 17:55, Doug Barton a écrit : > On 02/07/2013 06:01 AM, Rémi Després wrote: >> Besides, these remaining concerns are aside from the question asked by >> Softwire > > Rémi, > > Do you admit to the possibility that the design coming from softwire might > have flaws that should b

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-07 Thread Rémi Després
2013-02-07 16:34, Ray Hunter : > Ole Troan wrote: >> Remi, ... >> >> I think our understanding of the IPv6 addressing architecture is >> incompatible. >> there are no unused subset or unused ranges of interface-ids in IPv6. >> >> cheers, >> Ole > FWIW I agree with Ole. > > An IID currently o

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-07 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/07/2013 06:01 AM, Rémi Després wrote: Besides, these remaining concerns are aside from the question asked by Softwire Rémi, Do you admit to the possibility that the design coming from softwire might have flaws that should be addressed before it proceeds? I'm not saying necessarily tha

Re: Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-07 Thread Ray Hunter
Ole Troan wrote: > Remi, > > with Remi's proposal, a duplicate address will not even be detected. Correct: even if software is available to detect collisions between 4rd addresses and RFC 4291-compatible host addresses, it won't detect any. (Such software, which isn't mandatory

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-07 Thread Rémi Després
2013-02-07 15:04, Ole Troan : > I think our understanding of the IPv6 addressing architecture is incompatible. > there are no unused subset or unused ranges of interface-ids in IPv6. 1. If you interpret RFC 4291 as already permitting to set u=1 in some IIDs other than derived from IEEE MAC ad

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-07 Thread Ole Troan
Remi, with Remi's proposal, a duplicate address will not even be detected. >>> >>> Correct: even if software is available to detect collisions between 4rd >>> addresses and RFC 4291-compatible host addresses, it won't detect any. >>> (Such software, which isn't mandatory for 4rd, is of cou

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-07 Thread Rémi Després
2013-02-07 14:41, Ole Troan : > Remi, > >> ... >>> with Remi's proposal, a duplicate address will not even be detected. >> >> Correct: even if software is available to detect collisions between 4rd >> addresses and RFC 4291-compatible host addresses, it won't detect any. (Such >> software,

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-07 Thread Ole Troan
Remi, > ... >> with Remi's proposal, a duplicate address will not even be detected. > > Correct: even if software is available to detect collisions between 4rd > addresses and RFC 4291-compatible host addresses, it won't detect any. (Such > software, which isn't mandatory for 4rd, is of course

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-07 Thread Rémi Després
2013-02-06 17:28, Ole Troan : > Fernando, ... > with Remi's proposal, a duplicate address will not even be detected. Correct: even if software is available to detect collisions between 4rd addresses and RFC 4291-compatible host addresses, it won't detect any. (Such software, which isn't manda

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-07 Thread Rémi Després
Le 2013-02-06 à 22:12, Roland Bless a écrit : ... > >> Nothing new needs to be done in any implementation other than that of a >> 4rd-supporting devices (4rd CEs and BRs). >> >>> In case that they are >>> not using 4rd, MUST they exclude this IID range? >> >> Because of RFC 4291 is as it is,

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-06 Thread Roland Bless
Hi, On 06.02.2013 17:55, Rémi Després wrote: >> Am 06.02.2013 14:52, schrieb Rémi Després: >>> As already said, the 4rd range only makes a first use of an existing >>> RFC4291 provision: "The use of the universal/local bit in the >>> Modified EUI-64 format identifier is to allow development of fut

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-06 Thread Rémi Després
2013-02-06 17:41, "Bless, Roland (TM)" : > Hi, > > Am 06.02.2013 14:52, schrieb Rémi Després: >> As already said, the 4rd range only makes a first use of an existing >> RFC4291 provision: "The use of the universal/local bit in the >> Modified EUI-64 format identifier is to allow development of

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-06 Thread Bless, Roland (TM)
Hi Fernando, Am 06.02.2013 17:16, schrieb Fernando Gont: > On 02/06/2013 10:52 AM, Rémi Després wrote: >> >> - The reserved range is a tool to AVOID conflicts. It isn't, like DAD, a >> tool to RESOLVE them when they occur. > > DAD *detects* them, but does not resolve them (for instance, the las

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-06 Thread Bless, Roland (TM)
Hi, Am 06.02.2013 14:52, schrieb Rémi Després: > As already said, the 4rd range only makes a first use of an existing > RFC4291 provision: "The use of the universal/local bit in the > Modified EUI-64 format identifier is to allow development of future > technology that can take advantage of interf

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-06 Thread Rémi Després
Le 2013-02-06 à 17:16, Fernando Gont a écrit : > On 02/06/2013 10:52 AM, Rémi Després wrote: >> >> - The reserved range is a tool to AVOID conflicts. It isn't, like DAD, a >> tool to RESOLVE them when they occur. > > DAD *detects* them, but does not resolve them (for instance, the last > "D"

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-06 Thread Ole Troan
Fernando, >> - The reserved range is a tool to AVOID conflicts. It isn't, like DAD, a >> tool to RESOLVE them when they occur. > > DAD *detects* them, but does not resolve them (for instance, the last > "D" stands for detection). As a datapoint, all the v6 implementations I > know of support DA

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-06 Thread Fernando Gont
On 02/06/2013 10:52 AM, Rémi Després wrote: > > - The reserved range is a tool to AVOID conflicts. It isn't, like DAD, a tool > to RESOLVE them when they occur. DAD *detects* them, but does not resolve them (for instance, the last "D" stands for detection). As a datapoint, all the v6 implementat

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-06 Thread Rémi Després
2013-02-06 à 13:07, "Bless, Roland (TM)" : > Dear Rémi, > > Am 06.02.2013 11:13, schrieb Rémi Després: >> This is, in my understanding, what should be avoided in 6man, a debate on >> new 4rd modifications: >> - The 4rd design has been stabilized for long in Softwire. >> - The question to 6man

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-06 Thread Bless, Roland (TM)
Dear Rémi, Am 06.02.2013 11:13, schrieb Rémi Després: > This is, in my understanding, what should be avoided in 6man, a debate on > new 4rd modifications: > - The 4rd design has been stabilized for long in Softwire. > - The question to 6man is ONLY whether the proposed reserved range is > compa

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-06 Thread Ole Troan
ns: > - The 4rd design has been stabilized for long in Softwire. > - The question to 6man is ONLY whether the proposed reserved range is > compatible with the IPv6 addressing architecture. > > Thanks, > RD > > > >> De : Ole Troan >> Objet : Rép : Keeping

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-06 Thread Rémi Després
> De : Ole Troan > Objet : Rép : Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g > discussion > Date : 2013-02-05 22:42 > À : "Manfredi, Albert E" > Cc: "ipv6@ietf.org" > >> +1 >> >> If a better alternative is devised for

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-05 Thread Ole Troan
> +1 > > If a better alternative is devised for 4rd, as Roland proposes here, then can > we deprecate the u/g bit usage? Seems to me that privacy addresses are > preferable anyway, if not DHCP or statically assigned ones, so any importance > assigned to u/g surely becomes a historical artifact?

RE: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-05 Thread Manfredi, Albert E
> -Original Message- > From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of > Bless, Roland (TM) > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 12:08 PM > To: ipv6@ietf.org > Subject: Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g > discussion

Re: Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-05 Thread Bless, Roland (TM)
Hi all, On 05.02.2013 16:51, Rémi Després wrote: > Several opinions against a 4rd-range reservation have also been > expressed, but they concern the purpose of 4rd, or its experimental > status, or personal feelings against one more specification. They are > not about technical compatibility with

Keeping the 4rd-range issue separate from the general u/g discussion

2013-02-05 Thread Rémi Després
Bob, It seems the general discussion on u/g-bits clarification is going to be long. Fortunately it also appears, for instance in the following, that compatibility of the 4rd IID-range with the IPv6 addressing architecture doesn't depend on this work being completed. 2013-02-05 15:36, Brian