On 2007-06-28 16:47, Paul Vixie wrote:
Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Scott Leibrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I would support Paul's proposed changes below, and the resulting draft.
I wouldn't, at this time. We need to see where the RAM/RRG discussions
lead. If they lead to a clear need for registered globally unique
identifiers in IPv6 address format, something like this might be right
(unless we also need a cryptographic property).
where are those discussions being held,
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ram/current/index.html
http://psg.com/lists/rrg/
and can you post a summary,
Personally, no. The R&A Directorate is supposed to be
doing the overview and summary stuff:
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/radir/current/index.html
and why
are we wasting our keystrokes discussing this if there's a preclusive topic
being discussed somewhere entirely else?
I don't think it's preclusive. If that discussion does lead to an
architectural id/locator split, it will not override what we're discussing
here, IMHO. We'll still have IP addresses and they will still need to
be unambiguous. Also, that is a discussion that is finally happening
after ten years of needing to happen, so it's hardly surprising that
it hasn't converged rapidly.
I have a strong feeling there is no consensus forming...
i disagree, i've been immersed in this for a month now, and my draft edits
as proposed last night represent my understanding of a potential consensus,
which unlike you i can feel forming.
I personally am not part of it then. I don't want to see any structured
allocation scheme; a robotic guarantee of uniqueness is all I want to see.
I don't want to facilitate making these things look like a binary
hierarchy, because that will cause people to believe for the next 50
years that they aggregate and are routeable. I also don't want to
accidentally create a business in selling large integers, which would
be the effect of structured registration as opposed to robotic random
numbers.
Brian
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