[homenet] Clarification on Routing Thoughts

2014-07-25 Thread RJ Atkinson
I apologise that I did not organise my thoughts well earlier, so I will try to complete -- hopefully in a more clear way -- the thoughts I was trying to express earlier in the WG mtg. TERMINOLOGY; Anyplace I say home or residence below, I also mean to include small business or any other

Re: [homenet] Clarification on Routing Thoughts

2014-07-25 Thread RJ Atkinson
On 25 Jul 2014, at 15:31 , Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: If I understand you right, you're pushing for an approach where Not correct. I'm not pushing for anything. Yours, Ran ___ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org

Re: [homenet] Clarification on Routing Thoughts

2014-07-25 Thread RJ Atkinson
On 25 Jul 2014, at 12:52 , Ted Lemon wrote: So this seems more like an argument ... Ted, To be clear, since you seem confused, my comments were not an argument for or against anything, just a set of observations. Cheers, Ran ___ homenet mailing

Re: [homenet] [dnssd] IETF-89 WG meeting minutes

2014-04-02 Thread RJ Atkinson
I concur with Tom Pusateri, Markus Stenberg, Ted Lemon, and others: - A layer-2 solution is not deployable in the full range of HomeNet environments. - Many link layers do not use any form of IEEE 802. So RBRIDGE and TRILL and similar are not deployable over many applicable link

[homenet] Prefix semantics (not) [was: DHCP PD]

2014-02-12 Thread RJ Atkinson
On 6th February 2014, Brian Carpenter said, in part: We designed diffserv for this purpose and it works well and is quite widely used in corporate networks. Yes. Purely as an example, one of my clients is using the IP ToS/DSCP byte to distinguish between various kinds of traffic inside

[homenet] Scope of Work: broken kit deployments out-of-scope

2013-03-09 Thread RJ Atkinson
Consistent with previous comments by many others, and in my personal opinion, the following items ought to be out-of-scope for the HomeNet documents (and WG activities): * CPE devices that don't comply with IETF IPv6 specifications (e.g. a CPE device that only can cope with a /64 prefix

Re: [homenet] Mixing DNS in with routing information

2012-10-26 Thread RJ Atkinson
On 25 Oct 2012, at 20:33 , Lorenzo Colitti wrote: I'm also nervous about both DNS authorisation and DNS authentication. Who is allowed to make which DNS advertisements and how do I authenticate the received DNS advertisement as both valid and authorised ? I don't see a difference.

Re: [homenet] Mixing DNS in with routing information

2012-10-26 Thread RJ Atkinson
On 26 Oct 2012, at 12:24 , Stephen Farrell wrote: My understanding is that 3118 is fictional, i.e. is never deployed, ever. As an AD, I generally push back on any draft where the security considerations say use 3118 and you'll be fine. If I'm wrong, I'd be interested in knowing that and

Re: [homenet] Mixing DNS in with routing information

2012-10-26 Thread RJ Atkinson
Earlier, Andrew Sullivan wrote: ...DNSSEC cannot be used for validation with mDNS because the actual mDNS name is [some string].local., ... mDNS can, and regularly is, also used to transport DNS information outside the .local pseudo-TLD. The mDNS specification explicitly says that mDNS also

[homenet] Mixing DNS in with routing information

2012-10-25 Thread RJ Atkinson
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:11:18 +0900, Lorenzo Colitti wrote, in part: ...from the border router which discovered the DNS entries for tvservice.jp, inject those DNS servers into the mesh with a tag that they only be used for tvservice.jp, and pass that around in the routing protocol. No? I'm

Re: [homenet] I-D Action: draft-haddad-homenet-multihomed-00

2012-10-23 Thread RJ Atkinson
I agree with Lorenzo Colitti, Ted Lemon, James Woodyatt, and various others about the adverse operational impacts of using NPT66. So I also agree that the Home Net Architecture document (and any other applicable Home Net documents) ought to clearly indicate that NPT66 is NOT part of the HomeNet

Re: [homenet] draft-ietf-homenet-arch-04

2012-10-01 Thread RJ Atkinson
On 01 Oct 2012, at 15:01 , Curtis Villamizar wrote: You are suggesting if A then !B. No, my apologies for being unclear. I am NOT, repeat NOT, suggesting that. (A !B) is a possible deployment option, of course, but it is not the ONLY option either. I prefer if A and B, then C. I