Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Alain Durand wrote: > > Zefram wrote: > > >Alain Durand wrote: > > > > > >>If this is the case, what will we have gained from fec0::/48? > >> > >> > > > >The opportunity to avoid this numbering clash. Idiots who use fd00::/48 > >will clash with each other, but the rest of us avoid clashes with e

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-14 Thread Alain Durand
Zefram wrote: Alain Durand wrote: If this is the case, what will we have gained from fec0::/48? The opportunity to avoid this numbering clash. Idiots who use fd00::/48 will clash with each other, but the rest of us avoid clashes with each other and with the idiots. If you look at RFC3513,

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-14 Thread Zefram
Alain Durand wrote: >Tim Chown wrote: >>I think we will see a lot of people using fd00::/48 or fd00::/64 for >>their sites/links purely becuase it's less effort to type. >> >If this is the case, what will we have gained from fec0::/48? The opportunity to avoid this numbering clash. Idiots who us

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-14 Thread Fred Templin
Alain Durand wrote: Tim Chown wrote: I think we will see a lot of people using fd00::/48 or fd00::/64 for their sites/links purely becuase it's less effort to type. If this is the case, what will we have gained from fec0::/48? One year of extremely heated discussion, appeal, gazillions of em

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-14 Thread Alain Durand
Tim Chown wrote: I think we will see a lot of people using fd00::/48 or fd00::/64 for their sites/links purely becuase it's less effort to type. If this is the case, what will we have gained from fec0::/48? One year of extremely heated discussion, appeal, gazillions of email, just to replace

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-14 Thread Tim Chown
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:36:29PM +1100, Geoff Huston wrote: > > After thinking about this and looking at the evident need to make some > progress > here I'd like to believe that this level of resolution of potential > ambiguity > is adequate, given that there is always the option to use a cent

RE: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-11 Thread Christian Huitema
> > "Private" implies security virtues that they don't have. > > "Local" implies geographical limitations that they don't have. > > "Site" ditto. > > "Organizational" implies usage limitations that they don't have. > > "Limited scope" upsets people because of the complexity of the scope > debate.

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-11 Thread Tim Chown
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:46:18PM +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > "Private" implies security virtues that they don't have. > "Local" implies geographical limitations that they don't have. > "Site" ditto. > "Organizational" implies usage limitations that they don't have. > "Limited scope" upsets

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-11 Thread Zefram
Brian E Carpenter wrote: >Does anybody have a thesaurus handy? "Non-global"? -zefram IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
"Private" implies security virtues that they don't have. "Local" implies geographical limitations that they don't have. "Site" ditto. "Organizational" implies usage limitations that they don't have. "Limited scope" upsets people because of the complexity of the scope debate. "Entity" really isn't d

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread Chirayu Patel
IMHO, "private" is appropriate. As noted in other emails, "organization" is bit too specific. Plus, "Private (IPv4) addresses" is a well known concept, and it would simpler for IPv4 network (home, organization, etc networks) operators to extend the same understanding to IPv6. CP On Mon, 10 Nov

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:29:55 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How about simply calling whatever we end up with > > "organizational addresses"? > > I think that captures it much better than "local", "site > > local", "private" > > or whatever. > > as others have pointed out these addresses wil

RE: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread matthew . ford
> How about simply calling whatever we end up with > "organizational addresses"? > I think that captures it much better than "local", "site > local", "private" > or whatever. as others have pointed out these addresses will be used in non-'organisational' scenarios. therefore i prefer 'local' as

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread Tim Chown
Only nit aside from a flavour of OSI is having to grep for "organi[sz]ational" in drafts/RFCs. Most use of "site local" may be in SOHO networks; not sure the word fits well for home use, but if site local has stigma attached... Tim On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:54:05PM -0500, Hans Kruse wrote: > T

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread Mark Smith
Oops, sorry, just looked at the ID again, noticed that it states they are unique. Along those lines "Unique Organizational IPv6 Unicast Addresses" would be an acceptable title. Hmm, at least for me, I would take the word "unique" to guarantee no duplication. With local generation, this isn't a

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:25:14 -0800 Bob Hinden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd be inclined to go with this one, as it avoids implying a guarantee of uniqueness, which would then imply they could be used as PI addresses from day one. >Organizational IPv6 Unicast Addresses Regards, Mark.

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread Hans Kruse
That works for me... --On Monday, November 10, 2003 21:52 +0100 Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How about simply calling whatever we end up with "organizational addresses"? I think that captures it much better than "local", "site local", "private" or whatever. Brian Hans Kruse,

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread Bob Hinden
At 02:55 PM 11/10/2003, Mark Smith wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:52:46 +0100 Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about simply calling whatever we end up with "organizational addresses"? > I think that captures it much better than "local", "site local", "private" > or whatever. > I

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:52:46 +0100 Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about simply calling whatever we end up with "organizational addresses"? > I think that captures it much better than "local", "site local", "private" > or whatever. > I agree. I think it is a more descriptive n

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Brian E Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Stephen Sprunk wrote: > > I also object to this part of the draft as well. IMHO, the registry should > > list who the registrant is for a particular prefix, but not allow non-exact > > searches. > > I think there are privacy and secrecy-by-hidin

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Stephen Sprunk wrote: > > Thus spake "Alain Durand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > >I meant PA because that is all that is in the implementors and > > >registries' hands today. Actually any form of PI would do (they are > > >all equally unrouteable today). I regard the Hinden

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Alain Durand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Brian E Carpenter wrote: > >I meant PA because that is all that is in the implementors and > >registries' hands today. Actually any form of PI would do (they are > >all equally unrouteable today). I regard the Hinden/Haberman addresses > >as an easy-t

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread Hans Kruse
I would oppose dropping the self-generated portion. I think we have been pretty clear about the fact that anyone expecting to use locals for long periods of time with some chance of merging later should get the registered kind. There is real value in the self-generated version, and I simply c

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
How about simply calling whatever we end up with "organizational addresses"? I think that captures it much better than "local", "site local", "private" or whatever. Brian Stephen Sprunk wrote: > > Thus spake "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 1. To number systems/interfaces that a

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I don't see how this can be true in general. > > Here is an example using referrals; the three nodes involved are A, B, > > C. Node A and B are in the same site, have both local and global > > addresses, and C is in a different site. > > > N

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Fred and Alain, I am simply not as scared of unregistered prefixes as Alain, because I believe there will always be rogue prefixes. At least you can tell these are rogues simply by looking at the prefix, unlike the case of rogues that are stolen PA prefixes. So I don't accept the thesis that they

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 1. To number systems/interfaces that are only accessible from withing > the local network. >... > In the case of 1. the scope is site local, although the difinition of > "site" may be subject to change. Perhaps it'd clear things up if we chan

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread Fred Templin
How about this - what if we let individual users randomly self generate an address which they then take to the registration authority. If no one else has previously registered the address, the registration authority grants the assignment and records it in the registration database. If the address w

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread Alain Durand
I think that if you were to drop entirely the randomly self generated addresses and do not say anything about the fee scruture except it has to be low cost, it would be a much more swallable pill. - Alain. Bob Hinden wrote: Geoff, After thinking about this and looking at the evident need to

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread Bob Hinden
Geoff, After thinking about this and looking at the evident need to make some progress here I'd like to believe that this level of resolution of potential ambiguity is adequate, given that there is always the option to use a central registry draw to obtain a global id that is assuredly unique.

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-10 Thread Geoff Huston
At 12:51 PM 9/11/2003 +, Tim Chown wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 08:49:40PM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote: > > - it is not expected to be routable, however, it will be treated > as if it is a global address. therefore it is likely to be leak out. > 1.0 asserts t

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-09 Thread Bob Hinden
Itojun, i object to publish this document as a standard track document. experimental would be more preferable. I don't agree. I think this is appropriate for standards track. unique local IPv6 unicast address avoids some problems of site-local, but not all; there

RE: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-09 Thread Bound, Jim
] > Subject: Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 > Unicast Addresses" > > > > > This is a IPv6 working group last call for comments on > advancing the > > > following document as an Proposed Standard: > > > > > > Title

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
itojun, Tim has replied technically. I would object to this being published as Experimental. That would be the worst solution, since nobody would have any idea whether it was safe to use it. I'd rather we simply started misusing PA or, indeed, 6to4 space to solve the operational problem. In fact

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-09 Thread Tim Chown
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 08:49:40PM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote: > > - it is not expected to be routable, however, it will be treated > as if it is a global address. therefore it is likely to be leak out. > 1.0 asserts that "even if it leaks out there's no conflict"

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-09 Thread Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
> > This is a IPv6 working group last call for comments on advancing the > > following document as an Proposed Standard: > > > > Title : Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses > > Author(s) : R. Hinden, B. Haberman > > Filename: draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-01.txt

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-06 Thread Pekka Savola
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Brian Haberman wrote: > This is a IPv6 working group last call for comments on advancing the > following document as an Proposed Standard: > > Title : Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses > Author(s) : R. Hinden, B. Haberman > Filename:

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-11-05 Thread Raul Echeberria
At 08:10 22/10/2003, Brian Haberman wrote: This is a IPv6 working group last call for comments on advancing the following document as an Proposed Standard: Title : Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses Author(s) : R. Hinden, B. Haberman Filename: draft-

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-10-31 Thread Alain Durand
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Alain Durand wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: Alain, Do you think it is better to let the RIRs develop a policy for allocating PA space for local use, i.e. create a swamp like IPv4? PA... Do you PI for Provider Independant? If it is the case, yes I think

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-10-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Alain Durand wrote: > > Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > >Alain, > > > >Do you think it is better to let the RIRs develop a policy for > >allocating PA space for local use, i.e. create a swamp like IPv4? > > > PA... Do you PI for Provider Independant? > If it is the case, yes I think it would be less

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-10-29 Thread Geoff Huston
Brian, In your note to Alain you pose the question: >Do you think it is better to let the RIRs develop a policy for >allocating PA space for local use, i.e. create a swamp like IPv4? It appears to me that you see this as being an either / or situation, where we accept the document as is or we d

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-10-29 Thread Alain Durand
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Alain, Do you think it is better to let the RIRs develop a policy for allocating PA space for local use, i.e. create a swamp like IPv4? PA... Do you PI for Provider Independant? If it is the case, yes I think it would be less damaging to do that. See below. In detail..

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-10-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Alain, Do you think it is better to let the RIRs develop a policy for allocating PA space for local use, i.e. create a swamp like IPv4? In detail... Alain Durand wrote: > > I think that this effort is not ready for prime time. > > This document is creating a explosive cocktail made of: > >

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-10-29 Thread Alain Durand
I think that this effort is not ready for prime time. This document is creating a explosive cocktail made of: - policy: creation of a new authority to perform address assignment outside of the regular channels - economy: imposition of a fixed one time fee model, preventing competition

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-10-29 Thread Keith Moore
> > The problem is that there are two types of uses for local > > addresses: > > > > 1. To number systems/interfaces that are only accessible from withing > > the local network. > > > > 2. To have stable addresses for systems/interfaces regardless of > > intermittant external connectivity and re

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-10-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > On 24 okt 2003, at 18:14, Hans Kruse wrote: > > > 2. Several folks stumbled over the wording (in section 1.0) that > > "applications may treat these address[sic] like global scoped > > addresses". How about: > > > "Applications may treat these addresses like glob

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-10-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Exactly. Either we put this solution on the standards track, eliminating many of the problems of both RFC 1918 and FEC0::/10, and meeting a range of needs, or we continue searching for the perfect solution. If we take the latter approach, we will surely see PA space used for these needs instead, o

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-10-26 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 24 okt 2003, at 18:14, Hans Kruse wrote: 2. Several folks stumbled over the wording (in section 1.0) that "applications may treat these address[sic] like global scoped addresses". How about: "Applications may treat these addresses like global scoped addresses; such applications will functi

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-10-24 Thread Hans Kruse
Some notes on the draft as well as some of the comments on the list: 1. I think this draft is appropriately being prepared as Proposed Standard. Trying to side-line local addressing to Experimental is not in keeping with the declared consensus on work towards a "replacement for site-locals" (

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-10-23 Thread Geoff Huston
Please send substantive comments to the ipv6 mailing list, and minor editorial comments to the authors. This last call period will end on 5 November 2003. I do not believe that this document is ready for Proposed Standard. My comments (both as suggested text corrections and as more substantive c

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-10-22 Thread Keith Moore
Summary: - I do not think it is appropriate to publish this document as Proposed Standard at this time. - I believe the structure of these addresses and means of assigning prefixes are basically sound. However, I have several problems with sections 7 on. - I would support publication o

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-10-22 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 22 okt 2003, at 17:51, Erik Nordmark wrote: - In practice, applications may treat these address like global scoped addresses. I don't see how this can be true in general. Here is an example using referrals; the three nodes involved are A, B, C. Node A and B are in the same site, hav

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-10-22 Thread Erik Nordmark
> This is a IPv6 working group last call for comments on advancing the > following document as an Proposed Standard: > > Title : Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses > Author(s) : R. Hinden, B. Haberman > Filename: draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-01.txt I ass

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

2003-10-22 Thread Zefram
Brian Haberman wrote: > Filename: draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-01.txt That should be draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-01.txt. Section 3.1 is still written from the point of view of having no definitely determined format prefix, which is appropriate for discussion but not in a Propo