Hi All, During the last call period for "A Flexible Method for Managing the Assignment of Bytes of an IPv6 Address Block", there was only one comment (attached). The comment did not raise any specific technical issues with the document, but it did question its usefulness.
As I am sure many of you know, documents should only be forwarded to the IESG for approval when there is a consensus of the WG that the document is both technically sound and useful. One ambivalent comment is not sufficient input to demonstrate WG consensus for publishing this document. So, if there are people in the WG who do believe that this document is both technically sound and useful and should be sent to the IESG for publication as an Informational RFC, could you please speak up? You can find the latest version of the document at: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipv6-ipaddressassign-06.txt Thanks, Margaret
To: Bob Hinden & Margaret Wasserman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "A Flexible Method for Managing the Assignment of Bytes of an IPv6 Address Block" On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Bob Hinden & Margaret Wasserman wrote: > This is a IPv6 working group last call for comments on advancing the > following document as an Informational RFC: > > Title : A Flexible Method for Managing the Assignment of > Bits of an IPv6 Address Block > Author(s) : M. Blanchet > Filename : draft-ietf-ipv6-ipaddressassign-06.txt > Pages : 8 > Date : 2003-1-6 I don't have problems with this, though I'm not sure how useful this is for most (but for some, certainly). A point I've raised in the past is, most operators are not really interested in optimizing the address assignments on a bit level (provided that the number of customers is not so high it would be required). Rather, here we do so with nibbles. Those are easier to calculate in the head and work better with reverse DNS delegations too. But I'm not sure whether this kind of "coarser approach for flexible assignment" calls for some text or not. A mention at most, I think. What do others feel? -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
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