Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-31 Thread Bob Hinden
Fred, I think I am in general agreement of the consequences, but it isn't about scope, it is about reachability. Anytime there is a a choice of addresses to use, the same issue come to play. It's hard to know about reachability with out prior knowledge or trying it out and seeing

Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-31 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 31, 2008, at 10:10 AM, Bob Hinden wrote: Fred, I think I am in general agreement of the consequences, but it isn't about scope, it is about reachability. Anytime there is a a choice of addresses to use, the same issue come to play. It's hard to know about reachability with

Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-03-29 16:01, Fred Baker wrote: On Mar 28, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Hemant Singh (shemant) wrote: I think I am in general agreement of the consequences, but it isn't about scope, it is about reachability. Anytime there is a a choice of addresses to use, the same issue come to play. It's

Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-28 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, JINMEI Tatuya / wrote: The scenario where a router advertises the default route yet does not advertise any prefix information (or prefix information does not set the autoconfig bit) is still a valid scenario (e.g., I could imagine DHCPv6-only deployments using this;

Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-28 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 19, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: - use a ULA source address if and only if the destination is a ULA in the same prefix I think that is broken. There's a reason ULAs are defined as global addresses. but they are *not* global addresses. If they were, they would be

Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-28 Thread Bob Hinden
Fred, On Mar 19, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: - use a ULA source address if and only if the destination is a ULA in the same prefix I think that is broken. There's a reason ULAs are defined as global addresses. but they are *not* global addresses. If they were, they would

RE: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-28 Thread Hemant Singh (shemant)
; Brian E Carpenter; Pekka Savola Subject: Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy Fred, On Mar 19, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: - use a ULA source address if and only if the destination is a ULA in the same prefix I think that is broken. There's a reason ULAs

Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-28 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 28, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Hemant Singh (shemant) wrote: I think I am in general agreement of the consequences, but it isn't about scope, it is about reachability. Anytime there is a a choice of addresses to use, the same issue come to play. It's hard to know about reachability with

RE: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-27 Thread Hemant Singh (shemant)
: Iljitsch van Beijnum; ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, JINMEI Tatuya / wrote: v4:{site-local,global} is special and is not that harmful as long as the network is properly configured (I know we cannot always assume

Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-25 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:27:26 +0200 (EET), Pekka Savola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While the default router persistence is an interesting observation, the more interesting one is why the default address selection algorithm pick source,destination pair of v6:{link-local,global} which is almost

Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Fred, On 2008-03-19 01:33, Fred Baker wrote: On Mar 18, 2008, at 5:10 AM, Gabi Nakibly wrote: ... Similarly, there is no sense using a ULA source address unless the destination is in the same ULA. If the destination is a global address it might or might not be able to reply, but the

Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-18 Thread Gabi Nakibly
it will be avoided by destination address selection rule 1. Gabi - Original Message From: Pekka Savola [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ipv6@ietf.org Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 12:27:26 AM Subject: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy FYI

Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-18 Thread Sebastien Roy
Pekka Savola wrote: Maybe the critical thing that has been missing in the RFC3484 discussions has been have vendors already fixed this? how? which approach has worked and which not? When we were working on http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-v6ops-v6onbydefault-03, I prototyped the

Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-18 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 18, 2008, at 5:10 AM, Gabi Nakibly wrote: Determining whether the destination address is in the zone of a source address can be tricky. However, it is fairly easy in the common case where the source address is link-local and the destination address is global. If the latter is

Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-18 Thread Sebastien Roy
Fred Baker wrote: Speaking for myself, there is a simpler rule in that special case that imght be instructive in the ULA case. There is no sense in using a link-local address as a source address unless one is sending to someone on the same LAN. Hence, there is no sense in suing a

Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-18 Thread Gabi Nakibly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Pekka Savola [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ipv6@ietf.org; Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 2:33:15 PM Subject: Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy On Mar 18, 2008, at 5:10 AM, Gabi Nakibly wrote: Determining whether

Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-14 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Le Friday 14 March 2008 00:44:11 Francis Dupont, vous avez écrit : Perhaps some of us didn't remember but: - I predicted the RFC 3484 will be always at least a phase back from what we want. - I predicted too it would take a not reasonable amount of time to get the document published or

RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-13 Thread Pekka Savola
FYI, While the default router persistence is an interesting observation, the more interesting one is why the default address selection algorithm pick source,destination pair of v6:{link-local,global} which is almost certain not to work instead of v4:{site-local,global} (ietf-464nat is using

Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-13 Thread Francis Dupont
Perhaps some of us didn't remember but: - I predicted the RFC 3484 will be always at least a phase back from what we want. - I predicted too it would take a not reasonable amount of time to get the document published or updated. Unfortunately both predictions were right so again I propose to

Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-13 Thread Alain Durand
+1 On 3/13/08 6:44 PM, Francis Dupont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps some of us didn't remember but: - I predicted the RFC 3484 will be always at least a phase back from what we want. - I predicted too it would take a not reasonable amount of time to get the document published or

Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-13 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Le Friday 14 March 2008 00:27:26 Pekka Savola, vous avez écrit : This issue was first reported about 5 years ago by Alain Durand et al and yet there is no fix yet (and no mention in the default address selection problem statement), see section 2 of:

Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-13 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Francis Dupont wrote: Perhaps some of us didn't remember but: - I predicted the RFC 3484 will be always at least a phase back from what we want. - I predicted too it would take a not reasonable amount of time to get the document published or updated. Unfortunately both

Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-13 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: Francis, I don't think BCP status would change this; that's still a = I disagree: the procedure for BCPs is lighter and BTW there is nothing when you look at it which justifies a standard track (we should not promote it to a draft standard for instance :-).

Re: RFC3484 destination address selection rule 2 is buggy

2008-03-13 Thread Mohacsi Janos
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: Le Friday 14 March 2008 00:27:26 Pekka Savola, vous avez écrit : This issue was first reported about 5 years ago by Alain Durand et al and yet there is no fix yet (and no mention in the default address selection problem statement), see section