On 06/11/2012 21:52, Fernando Gont wrote:
> On 11/06/2012 06:45 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>>> If you generate your addresses according to traditional SLAAC, and the
>>> advertised autoconf pprefix is always the same, where's the renumbering?
>> At least for a homenet or small office buying basic service,
>> there's no guarantee you will get the same prefix back if you
>> power cycle your CPE.
> 
> For a home net, do you really want to use IPv6 addresse, or wuld you
> rather use DNS/mDNS?

I don't think that's relevant. Yes of course names should be used
in configurations whenever possible, but the hosts and network elements
tend to use addresses under the covers.

>>> The point is, if you're updating the DNS entiries anyway, why would you
>>> care about the special magic (i.e., tokenized IIDS)? -- the meat seems
>>> to the in the renumbering case.
>> Site managers of enterprise networks like predictability, and
>> they don't want things to change in the case of a swap of the
>> physical server, and of course they don't want to manually
>> configure an IPv6 address on the new box.
> 
> They will have to configure the tokenized IIDs, anyway. - again, I think
> the meat is in the renumbering case.

It's because all networks need to be renumbered some day that it matters, yes.

>>> I'd set the DNS aside -- at least this I-D doesn't mention any mechanism
>>> to notify the DNS of the updated *prefix* (and you probably wouldn't
>>> want that, anyway).
>> It's a separate problem, but yes, I would want it automated (and
>> secure, of course). 
> 
> So far there's no support for that in the DNS, is it?

No, but listen to Fred's talk in 6renum, and/or read
draft-baker-6renum-oss-renumbering.

   Brian
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