Exactly. Either we put this solution on the standards track, eliminating many of the problems of both RFC 1918 and FEC0::/10, and meeting a range of needs, or we continue searching for the perfect solution. If we take the latter approach, we will surely see PA space used for these needs instead, or NAT6 devices, or both.
Brian Hans Kruse wrote: > > Some notes on the draft as well as some of the comments on the list: > > 1. I think this draft is appropriately being prepared as Proposed > Standard. Trying to side-line local addressing to Experimental is not in > keeping with the declared consensus on work towards a "replacement for > site-locals" (which after all are on the standards track now). Also, this > document IMHO can be tweaked in pretty short order to qualify for Proposed > Standard status. > > 2. Several folks stumbled over the wording (in section 1.0) that > "applications may treat these address[sic] like global scoped addresses". > How about: > > "Applications may treat these addresses like global scoped addresses; such > applications will function correctly within the reach of the local > addresses. Sites using a mixture of Globally Routable and Local addresses > may experience sub-optimal application behaviour, see sections 8.0-10.0 for > further discussion". > > If that sounds better I am willing to volunteer wording/edits to tighten up > those sections (regarding applications in mixed environments). > > 3. Section 9.0 regarding DHCP6; suggest: "In order for hosts to > autoconfigure Local IPv6 addresses, routers have to be configured to > advertise Local IPv6 /64 prefixes in router advertisements, or DHCP6 must > have been configured to assign them." > > 4. Regarding DNS; there were some comments regarding RFC1918-style > lookups. I assume the concern was regarding reverse lookups (the 1918 root > server load issue). However, the Local addresses in this draft are unique > (FC00::/8) or nearly unique (FD00::/8). As such there is really no reason > not to allow reverse lookups for FC00::/8 in the global DNS. > > Hans Kruse, Associate Professor > J. Warren McClure School of Communication Systems Management > Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science > Ohio University, Athens, OH, 45701 > 740-593-4891 voice, 740-593-4889 fax > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Brian E Carpenter Distinguished Engineer, Internet Standards & Technology, IBM NEW ADDRESS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PLEASE UPDATE ADDRESS BOOK -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
