Right. Also of course we should follow the correct architectural
principle (that any prefix length is valid) but also the agreed
practical position (that the subnet length is normally /64,
as discussed in draft-ietf-6man-why64 that was just approved).
Brian
On 02/11/2014 02:25, Sheng Jiang wrote:
> Hi, Ted,
>
> Yes, we mixed different concepts. Actually, this was a very good discussion.
> It gives a very good hints to improve the autonomic prefix management draft.
> Now, we know prefix management should be at least categoried into prefix
> assignment and prefix distribution. :) Thanks for your participation in this
> discussion.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Sheng
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> To: Sheng Jiang
> Cc: Benoit Claise; [email protected]; Markus Stenberg; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [homenet] [Anima] ANIMA scope + homenet interaction + charter
> v15
>
> On Nov 1, 2014, at 7:41 AM, Sheng Jiang <[email protected]> wrote:
>> But getting back to where we start the discussion, I still think in a large
>> network, the requesting prefix may not always be /64. It is reasonable to
>> have multiple distributed sources for prefix assignment, in a large network.
>> Autonomic network use case also includes to manage the prefix resource among
>> these prefix pools.
>
> It's certainly true that if you have multiple repositories for prefixes to
> assign, those repositories will need to transfer more than one /64 at a time,
> and it will be desirable to maintain pools of prefixes on these repositories
> that are aggregated into larger prefixes. But prefix _assignment_ will
> always be a single /64. I suspect that this is the core of our
> miscommunication--if you talk about prefix assignment and prefix distribution
> as if they are the same thing, which is what we started out doing, then it's
> easy to imagine that we are talking about the same thing when really one of
> is talking about assignment (me) and the other about distribution (you).
> Sorry about that.
>
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