RE: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-07-10 Thread Tony Hain
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 11:42 AM To: IETF IPv6 Mailing List Subject: Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case On Jun 21, 2007, at 11:03, Paul Vixie wrote: mark andrews has [observed] that there is no need for the resolution perimeter of a PTR to differ from

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-06-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-06-27 00:42, Roger Jorgensen wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, james woodyatt wrote: snip We successfully deprecated site-local unicast addressing by painting it with the stink of IPv4 network address translation. However, we retained the technical consensus that unreachable nodes still

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-06-27 Thread Jeroen Massar
james woodyatt wrote: [..] I merely contend-- albeit heretically-- that L=0 in RFC 4193 is nonsense. We should hand fc00::/8 back to IANA and revise RFC 4193 so that fd00::/8 is the ULA prefix identifier, where all addresses are allocated according to to the procedure currently defined, have

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-06-27 Thread james woodyatt
On Jun 27, 2007, at 04:09, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2007-06-27 00:42, Roger Jorgensen wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, james woodyatt wrote: snip We successfully deprecated site-local unicast addressing by painting it with the stink of IPv4 network address translation. However, we retained

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-06-26 Thread Roger Jorgensen
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, james woodyatt wrote: snip We successfully deprecated site-local unicast addressing by painting it with the stink of IPv4 network address translation. However, we retained the technical consensus that unreachable nodes still need to be uniquely addressable, and what's

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-06-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-06-21 20:03, Paul Vixie wrote: Scott, what feature of existing ULAs makes them unsuitable for this usage today? In the ridiculously unlikely event of a ULA prefix clash, this would be detected up-front when trying to set up the reverse delegation, and then you'd simply generate a

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-06-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-06-21 18:00, Scott Leibrand wrote: ... As far as I know there's no mechanism to delegate reverse DNS for a locally generated ULA, since there's no ownership. Please read RFC 4193 section 4.4. Brian IETF IPv6

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-06-22 Thread Scott Leibrand
Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2007-06-21 18:00, Scott Leibrand wrote: As far as I know there's no mechanism to delegate reverse DNS for a locally generated ULA, since there's no ownership. Please read RFC 4193 section 4.4. As I read RFC 4193 section 4.4, it confirms my previous

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-06-22 Thread Paul Vixie
As far as I know there's no mechanism to delegate reverse DNS for a locally generated ULA, since there's no ownership. Please read RFC 4193 section 4.4. As I read RFC 4193 section 4.4, it confirms my previous understanding that there is no mechanism (and should be no mechanism) for

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-06-22 Thread Scott Leibrand
Paul Vixie wrote: As I read RFC 4193 section 4.4, it confirms my previous understanding that there is no mechanism (and should be no mechanism) for delegating reverse DNS for a locally generated ULA. To my mind, this is a reason for adopting draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt: the

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-06-22 Thread Paul Vixie
... It seems like a simple IETF matter to approve a version of draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central that directs IANA to assign portions of this netblock to RIRs for them to use in the manner specified in the draft. if we're all agreed on that as an approach, and we're no longer considering asking IANA

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-06-22 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:42:28 -0700 james woodyatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 21, 2007, at 11:03, Paul Vixie wrote: mark andrews has [observed] that there is no need for the resolution perimeter of a PTR to differ from the routing perimeter of the IP address described by that

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-06-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-06-20 00:07, Scott Leibrand wrote: Here's a use case for ULA-C that demonstrates its usefulness, and demonstrates why reverse DNS for ULA-C blocks is a valuable enough service that we shouldn't purposefully break it for the public Internet. Let's say, for example, that I'm a very

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-06-21 Thread Paul Vixie
Scott, what feature of existing ULAs makes them unsuitable for this usage today? In the ridiculously unlikely event of a ULA prefix clash, this would be detected up-front when trying to set up the reverse delegation, and then you'd simply generate a different ULA prefix. As far as I know

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-06-21 Thread james woodyatt
On Jun 21, 2007, at 11:03, Paul Vixie wrote: mark andrews has [observed] that there is no need for the resolution perimeter of a PTR to differ from the routing perimeter of the IP address described by that PTR. yet here we have a large set of folks who [are] telling us that yes we do

RE: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-06-21 Thread Kevin Kargel
IPv6 Mailing List Subject: Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case On Jun 21, 2007, at 11:03, Paul Vixie wrote: mark andrews has [observed] that there is no need for the resolution perimeter of a PTR to differ from the routing perimeter of the IP address described by that PTR

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-06-21 Thread Scott Leibrand
Paul Vixie wrote: As far as I know there's no mechanism to delegate reverse DNS for a locally generated ULA, since there's no ownership. IMO any move to start delegating .arpa authority for ULAs would be de facto ULA-C, so if we're going to do that we should do it right and do the other

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-06-21 Thread Paul Vixie
Can you point me to the name of the referenced I-D? ... http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-02.txt what's wrong with this picture? is there a use case we can all study? Maybe the I-D answers this, but how do you resolve PTRs for some random section of

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-06-21 Thread Scott Leibrand
Paul Vixie wrote: by asking for a use case, i'm pointing out that if you can't be reached by an ip packet from there, then your need to look up a PTR corresponding to an address in there is unfathomable. I get that. But just because I *do* have IP reachability to there, that doesn't mean

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-06-21 Thread Mark Andrews
Paul Vixie wrote: As far as I know there's no mechanism to delegate reverse DNS for a locall y generated ULA, since there's no ownership. IMO any move to start delegating .arpa authority for ULAs would be de facto ULA-C, so if we're going to do that we should do it right and do the

Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt use case

2007-06-21 Thread Paul Vixie
by asking for a use case, i'm pointing out that if you can't be reached by an ip packet from there, then your need to look up a PTR corresponding to an address in there is unfathomable. I get that. But just because I *do* have IP reachability to there, that doesn't mean my local resolver