Brian,

> On Mar 9, 2019, at 1:55 PM, Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> A few comments. (Note that I am not on the opsec list, so please CC me on any 
> replies.)
> 
>> 2.1.2. Use of ULAs
> ....
>> It is tempting to think that ULAs could be useful for infrastructure
>> hiding as described in [RFC4864];...
> 
> That's a very strange choice of words, and ignores the actual argument
> for this choice, which is that internal communications using ULAs
> are doubly protected from accidental external visibility. If you want
> to say that RFC4864 was wrong, please argue that explcitly. Otherwise
> please be neutral, e.g.:
> 
> ULAs could be used for infrastructure hiding as described in [RFC4864];…

+1

> 
>> It is recommended to consider filtering packets with ULA source      
>> addresses or ULA destination addresses at the domain boundary.
> 
> Actually RFC4193 is already stronger than that. Filtering ULA routes
> is a "must", and filtering packets containing ULA source or destination
> is a "should" (unless explicitly configured otherwise). I think you
> should not weaken this here!

RFC4864 also describes this.

Bob



> 
>> 2.1.4.  Temporary Addresses - Privacy Extensions for SLAAC
>> 
>> Historically stateless address autoconfiguration (SLAAC) relies on   
>> the automatically generated EUI-64 address,which together with the   
>> /64 prefix makes up the global unique IPv6 address.
> 
> That's inaccurate. Try:
> 
> Historically, stateless address autoconfiguration (SLAAC) relied on   
> an automatically generated 64 bit interface identifier (IID) based
> on the EUI-64 MAC address, which together with the /64 prefix makes
> up the globally unique IPv6 address.
> 
> ....
>> As [RFC4941] privacy extension addresses could also be used to
>> obfuscate some malevolent activities (whether on purpose or not),
>> specific user attribution/accountability procedures must be put in
>> place as described in section Section 2.6.
> 
> That "must" is a bit strange. It seems too much to say "MUST",
> so why not make it "SHOULD"?
> 
> Regards
>   Brian Carpenter
> 
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