marcelo bagnulo wrote: > So, is there a new version for RFC 2374 that deprecates > TLA/NLA asignment > rules or is just that reality is not following the RFCs?
The draft- series of documents are the work-in-progress for updating and adding to the RFC series. Your question hints at a belief that all RFCs contain rules and are consistent with each other. As you have found they are not consistent, and only the ones noted as STD have firm rules. Those documents in draft-standard or proposed-standard state contain rules we believe are going to become firm, but still need real-world development & deployment to verify they are correct. Look through RFC 2026 for a complete definition. In addition to documents that define standard rules, there are Informational documents like RFC 1887 that are intended to capture the current thinking on specific topics. In particular RFC 1887 represents some early thoughts about how address management might work from the perspective of 7 years ago when the sudden and dramatic rise in popularity of the Internet was just begining and excessive routing table growth was an overriding concern. While routing table growth is still a very real concern, we have collectively recognized that some of the earlier assumptions about policy enforcement were invalid, so there are new draft- series documents to update and bring the RFC series inline with current thoughts. Tony -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
