On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Bob Hinden wrote:
> I think the new draft resolves issues raised during the last call. Changes
> to the document include:
>
> - Generalize the scope of the document to cover more than the 2000::/3
> prefix. This includes changing the title and introduction text.
> - Added a new section that describes in more detail why the TLA/NLA structure
> is being made historic.
> - Including an example of the address format that is consistent with
> the recommendations in RFC3177.
> - Added Erik Nordmark as an author (note this is not shown in the
> ID announcement).
> - Clarified normative and non-normative references.
> - Various small improvements to the text.
>
> I think the consensus of the discussion was to advance this document as in
> Informational RFC instead of to Proposed Standard. I believe it is now
> ready to be sent to the IESG.
One substantial point I'd like to see more discussion on is whether folks
feel that "Address Format" section, mainly restating what addr-arch-v3-11
says on 64 bit IID's, seems like the right thing to do in this document?
I think this point was brought up by at least Thomas Narten and others,
but I don't remember whether a closure was reached.
So, I believe everything starting from:
[ARCH] also requires that all unicast addresses, except those that
start with binary value 000, have Interface IDs that are 64 bits long
and to be constructed in Modified EUI-64 format. The format of
global unicast address in this case is:
[...]
should be removed, if not the whole section.
I can live with this but IMO putting 64-bit-interface-ID thing which is
rather controversial still in too many documents seems like something to
be careful about.
How do others feel?
Below are a few very minor editorial nits:
INTERNET-DRAFT R. Hinden, Nokia
February 26, 2003 S. Deering, Cisco
E. Nordmark, Sun
==> the header should probably say IPv6 working group.
unassigned parts of the IPv6 address space to the purpose of Global
Unicast as well.
==> "to the purpose of" ? Sounds awkward, especially "to"?
==> "Global Unicast" capitalized looks funny, as if it was somehow a
special term.
Non-Normative
==> better named Informative, I guess?
[ARCH] Hinden, R., "IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture",
Internet Draft, <draft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-11.txt>,
October 2002.
==> Forgot Steve from the author list :-)
6.0 Security Considerations
==> I believe Sec Cons is typically up, before references but YMMV.
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