Hi,

On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 06:11:59PM +0000, Vasilenko Eduard via ipv6-wg wrote:
> > Eh. So, you might want to consider not deploying insecure technology (SRv6) 
> > that has very obvious security problems, as has been pointed out on the 
> > various IETF lists, or misusing address space for something it is not meant 
> > for.
> 
> The next solution in the same draft 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-spring-srv6-srh-compression-00
> does not have the same problem. It has just one copy of the prefix in the 
> destination address. Hence, it could be any length (even bigger the /64).

Much better wrt address consumption, but still SR6 has unsolved security
problems.

As a consequence, SR6 can only be deployed if your network is fully 
disconnected from everyone else (including possibly untrusted customers)
- and if you have that, it does not really matter what addresses you use.

Gert Doering
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