Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-22 Thread James Woodyatt
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Markus Stenberg markus.stenb...@iki.fi wrote: My assertion: Given HNCP generated one spans whole administrative domain, _and_ should not have routing anywhere outside it, it’s uniqueness does not _matter_. Wait. Where did this and should not be routable

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-22 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 22, 2014, at 2:04 PM, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.ca wrote: Sure, people might not do that; sure there might be some people confusion when 5 friends get together for a LAN party (hey, why are there three servers called 'quake'? Which one is quake-1?), but I don't think that

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-22 Thread James Woodyatt
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.ca wrote: James Woodyatt j...@nestlabs.com wrote: My assertion: Given HNCP generated one spans whole administrative domain, _and_ should not have routing anywhere outside it, it’s uniqueness does

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-22 Thread Markus Stenberg
On 22.10.2014, at 20.51, James Woodyatt j...@nestlabs.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Markus Stenberg markus.stenb...@iki.fi wrote: Wait. Where did this and should not be routable anywhere outside recommendation come from? And if it's only a recommendation and not a

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-22 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 22, 2014, at 2:46 PM, James Woodyatt j...@nestlabs.com wrote: They may often be the only *default* routers, but there can be— and absolutely definitely will be in the vast majority of cases— overlay networks that route ULA prefixes to, from and most likely *between* home networks over

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-22 Thread James Woodyatt
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Ted Lemon mel...@fugue.com wrote: On Oct 22, 2014, at 2:46 PM, James Woodyatt j...@nestlabs.com wrote: They may often be the only *default* routers, but there can be— and absolutely definitely will be in the vast majority of cases— overlay networks that

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Michael, On 23/10/2014 07:04, Michael Richardson wrote: James Woodyatt j...@nestlabs.com wrote: My assertion: Given HNCP generated one spans whole administrative domain, _and_ should not have routing anywhere outside it, it’s uniqueness does not _matter_.

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-21 Thread Pierre Pfister
Hello, I tried to make a proposal which would deal with these network splits. Even though I must say that the PA draft in the first place did not cause any problem when network splits and joins later (collisions are dealt with). This adds quite a bunch of complexity, and provides the

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-21 Thread Michael Richardson
Pierre Pfister pierre.pfis...@darou.fr wrote: 9.1.2. Advertising a ULA prefix A router MAY start advertising a ULA prefix whenever the two following conditions are met: o It is the network leader. o There is no other advertised ULA prefix. I am concerned

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-20 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 20, 2014, at 2:00 PM, James Woodyatt j...@nestlabs.com wrote: Okay... except it seems you're admitting that my scenario where a simple reconfiguration of a network topology, e.g. one caused by an intermittent RF interference on an unlicensed band of the radio spectrum, would result in

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-20 Thread James Woodyatt
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Ted Lemon mel...@fugue.com wrote: On Oct 20, 2014, at 2:00 PM, James Woodyatt j...@nestlabs.com wrote: Okay... except it seems you're admitting that my scenario where a simple reconfiguration of a network topology, e.g. one caused by an intermittent RF

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-20 Thread James Woodyatt
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Ted Lemon mel...@fugue.com wrote: Yes, I read your explanation, and the solution I proposed takes it into account. Please stop arguing to win and actually read what I wrote. I did read what you wrote, and I do not agree that you are taking into account my

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-20 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 20, 2014, at 4:52 PM, James Woodyatt j...@nestlabs.com wrote: I did read what you wrote, and I do not agree that you are taking into account my concerns. Nevertheless, I shall stop arguing my case, and I will accept that I've lost it. I persist in thinking that we are failing to

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-18 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 17, 2014, at 11:25 PM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: I did explain how to do that: before the network partitions, That seems to imply that you know in advance that the network will partition. I assume that it will usually be a surprise. Normally there is no

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-17 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: Deprecated addresses can still be used until their valid lifetime expires. Ok, got it. It won't be used for new connections if there is something around with a non-zero preferred lifetime, but old ones within the home will still work. Check. --

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-17 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, Op 16 okt. 2014, om 15:22 heeft Lorenzo Colitti lore...@google.com het volgende geschreven: Per the table in http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6724#section-2.1 it will pick the GUA as a destination address, and per Rule 6, it will choose the GUA to connect to it. Do you know if

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-17 Thread Wuyts Carl
traffic, but imho, not that big overhead and only local traffic From: homenet [mailto:homenet-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Lorenzo Colitti Sent: donderdag 16 oktober 2014 16:19 To: Ted Lemon Cc: homenet@ietf.org; Michael Thomas Subject: Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-17 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 17, 2014, at 1:35 AM, Lorenzo Colitti lore...@google.com wrote: You keep mentioning this, but you're incorrect. Even if the ISP flash-renumbers, hosts will not lower the lifetime of their IP addresses below 2 hours, per RFC 4862. You are technically correct, and I will admit to having

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-17 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 17, 2014, at 8:46 AM, Lorenzo Colitti lore...@google.com wrote: Yes (but again, it won't be killed by the renumbering; it will be killed *when its source address expires*). But I really doubt that real users have long-lived connections from apps that don't reconnect on failure. Geeks

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-17 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 17, 2014, at 9:50 AM, Lorenzo Colitti lore...@google.com wrote: But you're saying you want ULAs because you want to continue to do what you were doing yesterday: persistent connections, like SSH and X-windows. I think you're trying to fix the problem at the wrong layer. But I don't

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-17 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 17, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.ca wrote: In my mind, the kind of reason for a CPE device *NOT* to offer a ULA is because the administrator typed in their own (provider independant) GUA over the ULA. Good point.

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-17 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 17, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.ca wrote: I will go back and read James' message about joins and splits. It seems that we have this problem with GUAs as well, and it seems that the whole address selection issue exists without ULAs, as long as one has

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-17 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 17, 2014, at 2:49 PM, James Woodyatt j...@nestlabs.com wrote: As I recall, the proposals in your response were less than concrete and didn't solve the problems. In particular, I remain curious about how to expire the locally generated ULA prefixes that accumulate over repeated

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-17 Thread Don Sturek
in-home ULA presence a MUST !? On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Ted Lemon mel...@fugue.com wrote: On Oct 17, 2014, at 8:46 AM, Lorenzo Colitti lore...@google.com wrote: Oh, ULAs and stable addressing sound good on paper, sure. But as soon as you actually try to use them, then suddenly

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-17 Thread James Woodyatt
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Ted Lemon mel...@fugue.com wrote: On Oct 17, 2014, at 2:49 PM, James Woodyatt j...@nestlabs.com wrote: As I recall, the proposals in your response were less than concrete and didn't solve the problems. In particular, I remain curious about how to expire the

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-17 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 17, 2014, at 4:41 PM, James Woodyatt j...@nestlabs.com wrote: I explained why you must generate a new ULA prefix every time you commission a new network. Yes, you did, and I believe the mechanism I proposed for handling network splits addressed the problem you described. If you think

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-17 Thread James Woodyatt
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Ted Lemon mel...@fugue.com wrote: On Oct 14, 2014, at 5:14 PM, James Woodyatt j...@nestlabs.com wrote: But there is a problem with only deprecating prefixes without expiring them. If they never expire, then they accumulate without limit within existing

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-17 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 17, 2014, at 5:16 PM, James Woodyatt j...@nestlabs.com wrote: p1. It looks like you agree that locally generate ULA prefixes should be allowed to expire. What I don't see is any conceptual outline for deciding, in a distributed methodology, which prefixes to renew and which to release

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-16 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Ted Lemon wrote: minutes is too short, because that will break for example a movie stream. But a 30-60 minute overlap will work fine for web browsing and nearly all applications a typical end-user uses other than long movies. I'd say a lot of the movie applications will

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-16 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Tero Kivinen wrote: My ssh connections are usually up and running for ever. They only go down when I update my firewall, there is network problems, or our company firewall is reset for some reason. Usually that means the ssh connection is up for few months... I would be

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-16 Thread Alexandru Petrescu
Le 16/10/2014 00:49, Ted Lemon a écrit : On Oct 15, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: See, I don't find that ideal at all. If I'm swinging around on my backyard trapeze watching the flying wallendas instructional video from my home jukebox, I really don't want to have my

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-16 Thread Alexandru Petrescu
Le 16/10/2014 00:57, Michael Thomas a écrit : On 10/15/14, 3:49 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Oct 15, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: See, I don't find that ideal at all. If I'm swinging around on my backyard trapeze watching the flying wallendas instructional video from my

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-16 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 16, 2014, at 2:14 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: What I most worry about is for instance SSH. Mikael, I think we have strayed sufficiently far off the topic that it is harmful for us to continue discussing it on the homenet mailing list. I agree with you that better

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-16 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Ted Lemon mel...@fugue.com wrote: My point was that homenets should have ULAs, and should not use GUAs for local communication, because GUAs can be flash renumbered, Actually, they can't. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4862#section-5.5.3 paragraph e) 3.

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-16 Thread Mark Andrews
In message CAKD1Yr2aLTjEo=7yj+=rzu8vpqtg6ujsuujq+onjmmtoef4...@mail.gmail.com, Lorenzo Colitti write s: --20cf303dd7088da2c005058a23d9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: Unless you have really old stacks your

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-16 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 16, 2014, at 8:15 AM, Lorenzo Colitti lore...@google.com wrote: Ted, you're going in circles here. You've been arguing for many messages that we should use ULAs because GUAs can be flash renumbered. And now you provide an example of an event that *is* a flash renumbering, and then

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-16 Thread STARK, BARBARA H
Unless you have really old stacks your device will pick the new GUA first to talk to your jukebox when you are on your neighbor's network and the ULA to talk to it when you are on your own. No, it won't. It will pick GUA-GUA both times. Per the table in

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-16 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 16, 2014, at 8:43 AM, Lorenzo Colitti lore...@google.com wrote: And when your ISP renumbers you, or a new ULA joins the network, you're going to tell the hosts about the new prefix policy using what type of packet? There's no reconfigure in stateless DHCPv6. Wouldn't the host do a

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-16 Thread Ralph Droms
On Oct 16, 2014, at 10:18 AM 10/16/14, Lorenzo Colitti lore...@google.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Ted Lemon mel...@fugue.com wrote: On Oct 16, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Lorenzo Colitti lore...@google.com wrote: Um, no? Why would it? Because that's an indication that there is new

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-16 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 16, 2014, at 9:18 AM, Lorenzo Colitti lore...@google.com wrote: So every time a new prefix comes in, hosts should restart DHCPv6? That seems pretty dubious (and expensive). I don't think any DHCP implementation works that way. How do they work, then? And why would you describe this

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-16 Thread STARK, BARBARA H
On Oct 16, 2014, at 9:18 AM, Lorenzo Colitti lore...@google.com wrote: So every time a new prefix comes in, hosts should restart DHCPv6? That seems pretty dubious (and expensive). I don't think any DHCP implementation works that way. How do they work, then? And why would you describe

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-16 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 16, 2014, at 11:39 AM, STARK, BARBARA H bs7...@att.com wrote: I think support for receiving more specific routes in RA messages (RFC 4191) would be easier to get hosts to implement than DHCPv6. This wouldn't help, because there's nothing to differentiate the GUA from the ULA. In any

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Markus Stenberg wrote: Every time I hear about ISP-forced customer renumberings, the more I start to think that 1+ ULA prefixes per home is a MUST, not a SHOULD. For me this isn't just about ISP-forced customer renumberings, but to also handle power outages, equipment

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi James, Consider a hypothetical router that has the regular automatic default behavior of commissioning a new standalone network while discovering any existing networks that it already possesses the credentials to join. Now consider what happens when devices of this category are

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:48:49AM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: I believe we should use SHIM6, MP-TCP, mosh and other similar techniques to make sure that we can move sessions around when doing renumbering. IPv6 has the infrastructure on L3 to handle renumbering gracefully, now we

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 06:17:28PM +0200, Philip Homburg wrote: But then when I tell other people, they can't do it. Because on a consumer lines it is just too complicated. Isn't the main thing that other people are just plain not interested in doing so in the first place...? Please

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Tero Kivinen
Markus Stenberg writes: Because no matter what ISP does, my IPv4 prefixes in my home _are_ stable. And IPv6 ones too (thanks to using statically configured tunnel, cough). When we defined a recommendation for ISPs in Finland for IPv6, we suggested that ISPs should always give same prefix to

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 15, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Gert Doering g...@space.net wrote: I explained my reasoning. Multiple times. Here and on other lists. Again and again. When you repeat yourself again and again, people stop listening to you. There was a consensus call done on this, and the architecture

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Philip Homburg
In your letter dated Wed, 15 Oct 2014 16:58:43 +0200 you wrote: Please understand that there are way more non-geeks out there that have no interest in computers except use them than there are geeks who care about IP addressing. *Our* job is to make it work for *them*, without forcing our world

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 05:47:02PM +0200, Philip Homburg wrote: In your letter dated Wed, 15 Oct 2014 16:58:43 +0200 you wrote: Please understand that there are way more non-geeks out there that have no interest in computers except use them than there are geeks who care about IP

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Ralph Droms
Ted - you wrote something that surprised me (in line)... On Oct 15, 2014, at 11:34 AM 10/15/14, Ted Lemon mel...@fugue.com wrote: On Oct 15, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Gert Doering g...@space.net wrote: I explained my reasoning. Multiple times. Here and on other lists. Again and again. When you

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 15, 2014, at 10:48 AM, Gert Doering g...@space.net wrote: Could you remind me what your point was? My point was that homenets should have ULAs, and should not use GUAs for local communication, because GUAs can be flash renumbered, and the use of them on the local wire has the potential

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/15/2014 09:28 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Oct 15, 2014, at 10:48 AM, Gert Doering g...@space.net wrote: Could you remind me what your point was? My point was that homenets should have ULAs, and should not use GUAs for local communication, because GUAs can be flash renumbered, and the use of

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi Ted, My point was that homenets should have ULAs, and should not use GUAs for local communication, because GUAs can be flash renumbered, and the use of them on the local wire has the potential to cause disruptions on the local wire that could be prevented by using ULAs. And that there

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread James Woodyatt
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Sander Steffann san...@steffann.nl wrote: [I wrote:] Consider a hypothetical router that has the regular automatic default behavior of commissioning a new standalone network while discovering any existing networks that it already possesses the credentials to

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/15/2014 10:50 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Oct 15, 2014, at 11:35 AM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: What about when my device is wandering back and forth between my ap and my neighbor's? I don't think that's a problem that we're scoped to solve, unless your and your neighbors'

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 15, 2014, at 1:34 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: I'm just pushing back that ULA's aren't necessarily without problems. It's easy to see how they can cause weird connectivity breaks across administrative domains. Though it's obviously not just homenets, wandering back and

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/15/14, 11:57 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: Ideally your device should not be hopping back and forth between networks. If it does, there is no work for homenet to do to address the problems that arise. See, I don't find that ideal at all. If I'm swinging around on my backyard trapeze

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread James Woodyatt
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: [...] I really don't want to have my network break connectivity because I happened to switch to my neighbor's wifi and I was using a ULA when I could have kept connectivity with a GUA. Except REC-49 in RFC 6092 does not

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/15/14, 1:28 PM, James Woodyatt wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com mailto:m...@mtcc.com wrote: [...] I really don't want to have my network break connectivity because I happened to switch to my neighbor's wifi and I was using a ULA when I

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 15, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: See, I don't find that ideal at all. If I'm swinging around on my backyard trapeze watching the flying wallendas instructional video from my home jukebox, I really don't want to have my network break connectivity because I

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/15/14, 3:49 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Oct 15, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: See, I don't find that ideal at all. If I'm swinging around on my backyard trapeze watching the flying wallendas instructional video from my home jukebox, I really don't want to have my

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 15, 2014, at 5:57 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: If I use a GUA to my jukebox, the routing will just work regardless of which AP I'm currently connected to. With ULA's, not so much. That's hardly a non-sequitur. You appear to have some misconceptions both about how IP routing

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/15/14, 4:06 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Oct 15, 2014, at 5:57 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: If I use a GUA to my jukebox, the routing will just work regardless of which AP I'm currently connected to. With ULA's, not so much. That's hardly a non-sequitur. You appear to have some

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 15, 2014, at 6:15 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: I'm talking about the server, not the client. ULA == unreachable on my neighbor's wifi. Don't want assumptions that servers on my home network will only be reachable by ULA's. If a GUA is being advertised on your homenet,

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 543efbf1.6040...@mtcc.com, Michael Thomas writes: On 10/15/14, 3:49 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Oct 15, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: See, I don't find that ideal at all. If I'm swinging around on my backyard trapeze watching the flying wallendas

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 16/10/2014 11:57, Michael Thomas wrote: On 10/15/14, 3:49 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Oct 15, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: See, I don't find that ideal at all. If I'm swinging around on my backyard trapeze watching the flying wallendas instructional video from my

[homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Pierre Pfister
Hello group, The architecture document states the following: - A home network running IPv6 should deploy ULAs alongside its globally unique prefix(es) to allow stable communication between devices [...] This translates into section 9.1 in the Prefix Assignment draft: - A router MAY

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, Erik Kline wrote: I vote no, please don't make it MUST. I agree, ULA should be optional, not MUST. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se ___ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Markus Stenberg
On 14.10.2014, at 11.21, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, Erik Kline wrote: I vote no, please don't make it MUST. I agree, ULA should be optional, not MUST. If we live in the land where we ignore existing broken implementations.. From my point of view, it should

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Mark Andrews
In message CAAedzxp1R-C5E9RJVMVLRJxPc0w4zooPtqnvWK9eggpZu4=x...@mail.gmail.com, Erik Kline writes: I vote no, please don't make it MUST. Among other things, if my home edge router losing it's upstream it (in theory) doesn't have to deprecate the global prefix in the home, just the default

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Wuyts Carl
:13 To: Pierre Pfister Cc: HOMENET Working Group Subject: Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !? I vote no, please don't make it MUST. Among other things, if my home edge router losing it's upstream it (in theory) doesn't have to deprecate the global prefix in the home, just

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Pierre Pfister
Looks like a good default policy to me. So there always is at least one IPv6 prefix (if not a GUA, generate a ULA). It still provides always-on IPv6 connectivity. And would therefore simplify protocol design and implementation. Does it seems like a better compromise to you (Mikael, Erik, Wuyts)

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 14, 2014, at 3:12 AM, Erik Kline e...@google.com wrote: Among other things, if my home edge router losing it's upstream it (in theory) doesn't have to deprecate the global prefix in the home, just the default route. Since I can't get to the Internet anyway, all I need is (almost) any

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 08:44:03AM -0500, Ted Lemon wrote: This is something we discussed at length back when we were doing the architecture document. The problem with this approach is that it exposes you to flash renumbering when you get back online, or if you can't do flash

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 09:41:55AM -0500, Ted Lemon wrote: On Oct 14, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Gert Doering g...@space.net wrote: flash renumber is a problem is pretty much a non-argument, as flash renumbering *will* happen, and devices in the home *will* have to handle it. Indeed. The

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Philip Homburg
In your letter dated Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:59:30 +0200 you wrote: Because this is the only way that application developers will learn to handle it. I'm happy my ISP doesn't do that. I would probably just use a tunnel instead. One of the advantages of IPv6 is that it is way easier to run publicly

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread JF Tremblay
On Oct 14, 2014, at 10:59 AM, Gert Doering g...@space.net wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 09:41:55AM -0500, Ted Lemon wrote: On Oct 14, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Gert Doering g...@space.net wrote: flash renumber is a problem is pretty much a non-argument, as flash renumbering *will* happen, and

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Wuyts Carl
Subject: Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !? Hi, On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 08:44:03AM -0500, Ted Lemon wrote: This is something we discussed at length back when we were doing the architecture document. The problem with this approach is that it exposes you to flash renumbering

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Wuyts Carl
very well. Regs Carl -Original Message- From: homenet [mailto:homenet-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Ted Lemon Sent: dinsdag 14 oktober 2014 16:42 To: Gert Doering Cc: Erik Kline; HOMENET Working Group; Pierre Pfister Subject: Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Wuyts Carl
Subject: Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !? Pierre Pfister pierre.pfis...@darou.fr wrote: The architecture document states the following: - A home network running IPv6 should deploy ULAs alongside its globally unique prefix(es) to allow stable communication

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 05:09:42PM +0200, Philip Homburg wrote: In your letter dated Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:59:30 +0200 you wrote: Because this is the only way that application developers will learn to handle it. I'm happy my ISP doesn't do that. I would probably just use a tunnel instead.

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:13:34AM -0500, Ted Lemon wrote: On Oct 14, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Gert Doering g...@space.net wrote: Indeed. The question is, should we increase the number of instances in which they are forced to handle it, or no? Because this is the only way that

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 14, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Wuyts Carl carl.wu...@technicolor.com wrote: I can confirm that. We have a customer handing out a new prefix every 4 days. But let's be clear: is your customer doing flash renumbering, or gracefully renumbering? If they are flash renumbering, are they doing it

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 14, 2014, at 10:41 AM, Gert Doering g...@space.net wrote: That reply doesn't surprise me the least, it's the standard answer from every geek who has not spent a few weeks thinking about this :-) This isn't a helpful response, Gert. If you are right, you can explain the reason that you

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Dave Taht
a data point: openwrt barrier breaker just shipped with ula generation enabled. Another data point - I just deployed ipv6 source specific routing in production. A box with an ipv6 address 5 hops deep in the network was able to get out (through 4 routers without any ipv6 addresses, just the fe80)

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 14, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Gert Doering g...@space.net wrote: In the end, at some point in time, the old prefix goes away, however you phase it. So if the application stubbornly clings to it, it will stop working. This is correct, but if you have a preferred and a deprecated prefix, the

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Sander Steffann
I haven't even mentioned source address selection, as that doesn't come into play for a singlehomed homenet - but as soon as the homenet gets multihomed, applications would benefit a LOT from doing intelligent source address selection. Like in presenting users a selection menu use ISP? -

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 14, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Gert Doering g...@space.net wrote: Application developers MUST handle changing addresses, for example by not doing silly things like at startup, do some DNS resolving and socket binding to a fixed address, and assume that the addresses you receive are not

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, Op 14 okt. 2014, om 18:27 heeft Ted Lemon mel...@fugue.com het volgende geschreven: On Oct 14, 2014, at 11:22 AM, Sander Steffann san...@steffann.nl wrote: One thing that does worry me is every application developer having to re-invent the code for all of this (find labels, actually

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, Ted Lemon wrote: I haven't encountered any ISPs that do flash renumbering, and I'm surprised to hear you saying that T-Online is doing it: that's not my understanding. In general, providers that renumber their customers use graceful renumbering, not flash renumbering.

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 14, 2014, at 1:44 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: I know providers that cycle their PPPoE sessions once per day to give customers new IPv4 GUA once per day. Right. This is IPv4. In IPv4 we typically use a NAT on the local wire, so we get the effect we are trying to

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread James Woodyatt
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:24 AM, Markus Stenberg markus.stenb...@iki.fi wrote: From my point of view, it should be SHOULD _always_ generate ULA (so that privacy oriented things in a home have a sane default without need for trusting firewalling), and MUST generate if no GUA around. I don't

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 14, 2014, at 2:19 PM, James Woodyatt j...@nestlabs.com wrote: On the topic of the original question, if I were to editorialize here, then I would want to see something like this: I get that you have an opinion on this, but you haven't actually stated any argument to support what you

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 15/10/2014 08:31, Ted Lemon wrote: On Oct 14, 2014, at 2:19 PM, James Woodyatt j...@nestlabs.com wrote: On the topic of the original question, if I were to editorialize here, then I would want to see something like this: I get that you have an opinion on this, but you haven't actually

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread James Woodyatt
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Ted Lemon mel...@fugue.com wrote: [...] This is where I am just completely puzzled. We talked about this previously. I thought the idea was that the homenet ULA should converge: that there should only be one, ultimately [...] This is exactly what I'm

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 14, 2014, at 4:31 PM, James Woodyatt j...@nestlabs.com wrote: There is also the exception that arises when two networks with different ULA prefixes are joined— now you have one network, with two ULA prefixes, neither of which can ever be allowed to expire.) When we talked about this

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread James Woodyatt
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Ted Lemon mel...@fugue.com wrote: When we talked about this previously, I think the idea was that when two networks with two sets of ULA prefixes merge, you deprecate one of them. [...] Naturally, you deprecate one of them, but my concern is that they never

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread James Woodyatt
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Ted Lemon mel...@fugue.com wrote: I don't think the objective is for the ULA prefix to be invariant. It's for the availability of a ULA prefix to be dependable, and for flash renumbering to be avoided whenever possible. So there's no problem with

Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

2014-10-14 Thread Dave Taht
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:40 PM, James Woodyatt j...@nestlabs.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Ted Lemon mel...@fugue.com wrote: When we talked about this previously, I think the idea was that when two networks with two sets of ULA prefixes merge, you deprecate one of them. [...]

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