Hi,
What they said.
I mean, I support Brian's wording change in the RFC. Being a newbie on
this list I probably shouldn't get a vote, but being a newbie I may have
a new perspective. A lot of the networking world sees IPv6 as still
thrashing and not ready for prime time. A year ago I read RFC-3056 (good
work, Brian), and concluded that it may be be time for my company to
devote resources to it. We have, and it's been a learning experience.
Personally I'm not thrilled about the idea of SL addresses. They seem
to wrap the IPv6 design around "corporate campus" type networks as they
existed in the mid 1990s, and thus handicap IPv6's ability to adapt to
future hierarchy evolution as well as v4 did. However making a change so
severe as to require re-coding IPv6 stacks (which seems to be where some
of the proposals could end up) will hurt IPv6's market credibility more
than it will help anything. Brian C.'s change would not require recoding
our stack (nor I think most others), but it does clear up some of the
ambiguity around SL addresses that I had after first reading the RFC.
That seems like the best we can hope for.
As Brian Z. pointed out, I'd be a bit miffed if the stack we just got
done writing (to be RFC compliant) required a change of this sort before
we even get it out of Beta. Maybe a good Mantra for this group to get
IPv6 accepted widely would be:
"If it ain't fatal, don't fix it".
-JB-
(BTW, Hi Rob!)
Randy Bush wrote:
>
> > What Brian C., Margaret, Brian H., Pekka, Mike, Jim, Alain, Ralph,
> > Keith, and Mark said, but not what Brian Z. said :).
>
> what he said
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