Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 19 feb 2008, at 10:02, Dan Wing wrote: It would be interesting to write it down, and to see what would break if the IP stack acquired and provided a fresh v6 address to every new connection. Maybe nothing would break, which would be great. You really don't want to do that for stuff like

Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Rémi Després
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote : It would be interesting to write it down, and to see what would break if the IP stack acquired and provided a fresh v6 address to every new connection. Maybe nothing would break, which would be great. You really don't want to do that for stuff

Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Le Tuesday 19 February 2008 11:02:49 ext Dan Wing, vous avez écrit : Is this functionality already available in Vista and Leopard? I ignore whether the privacy extension of stateless autoconfiguration of RFC 4941 is supported. It is supported in XP/Vista, and used by default for outgoing

RE: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Dan Wing
-Original Message- From: Rémi Després [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:53 AM To: Dan Wing Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: IPv6 NAT? Dan Wing wrote : It would not be an application concern. If users want this kind of strong privacy,

Nomcom 2007-8: IESG Selection Announcement

2008-02-19 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
Folks, The nomcom has finished the IESG member selection process and the IAB has confirmed the following individuals for a two-year term as IESG members. Lisa Dusseault, Applications Area Jari Arkko, Internet Area Dan Romascanu, Operations and Management Area Cullen Jennings, Real-time

Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Iljitsch van Beijnum: On 14 feb 2008, at 21:49, Florian Weimer wrote: The prevailing assumption is that IPv6 end nodes will be globally addressable for practical purporses. I think this is a very unlikely outcome. Are you saying that there will be IPv6 NAT? Is a node globally

Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Florian Weimer
2. that all end nodes will 'automagically' be able to be reached through the IPv6 routing and routed protocols. Obviously #2 is sound But it's not what will happen on the Internet. Protocol development needs to take that into account. ___ Ietf

Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-hokey-erx-09 (-10)

2008-02-19 Thread Pasi.Eronen
I have just scanned through version -10 of this draft, posted couple of hours ago. This version addresses my comments 5 and 6; and comments 4 and 10 are obsolete since the text I commented has been removed. The remaining comments are still valid. One additional comment for version -10: 16)

Re: Last Call on draft-ietf-netlmm-proxymip6

2008-02-19 Thread Soininen Jonne (NSN FI/Espoo)
Ted, Thanks for your kind words and sorry for taking my time to answer. Please, find below some thoughts, comments, and questions to your mail. On 2/15/08 3:55 AM, ext Ted Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jonne, Thanks for your reply; some comments inline. At 1:17 PM -0800 2/14/08,

Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 18 February, 2008 16:33 +1300 Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While it is surely a factor, I believe the dominant driver for NAT is addressing autonomy. For enterprise networks, certainly, coupled with multihoming. But absolutely not for SOHO networks, where the

RE: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
I think that many people in the security world and rather more outside it are repeating a big mistake we made during the cryptowars of the 1990s here. During the cryptowars, designing protocols to make them 'Freeh-proof' became a priority. It was certainly a bigger priority than making them

Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 19 feb 2008, at 14:20, John C Klensin wrote: (1) With NATs, every SOHO network (or at least every SOHO network an ISP can claim with a straight face to support) has exactly the same topology and addressing architecture. Is this important? The external address(es) are still different. (2)

ISP support models Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Dan York
On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:11 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 19 feb 2008, at 14:20, John C Klensin wrote: (1) With NATs, every SOHO network (or at least every SOHO network an ISP can claim with a straight face to support) has exactly the same topology and addressing architecture. Is this

Re: ISP support models Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 19 feb 2008, at 15:40, Dan York wrote: Is this important? The external address(es) are still different. Sure, but the home internal networks are identical. So Homeowner A calls up the ISP support and is having a problem getting a machine to work with the wireless router provided by

RE: ISP support models Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread michael.dillon
I'm not buying that this is so important that it's worth having a box rewrite EVERY address in EVERY packet for. If you really want this, you can simply create a loopback interface with address fc00::1 on it and users can type http://[fc00::1]/; (ok, so the brackets are annoying, but no

Re: ISP support models Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, Iljitsch, I'm confused... From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 19 feb 2008, at 15:40, Dan York wrote: Is this important? The external address(es) are still different. Sure, but the home internal networks are identical. So Homeowner A calls up the ISP support and is having

Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-hokey-erx-09 (-10)

2008-02-19 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
On 2/19/2008 4:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just scanned through version -10 of this draft, posted couple of hours ago. This version addresses my comments 5 and 6; and comments 4 and 10 are obsolete since the text I commented has been removed. The remaining comments are still

Re: ISP support models Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, 19 February, 2008 16:05 +0100 Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19 feb 2008, at 15:40, Dan York wrote: Is this important? The external address(es) are still different. Sure, but the home internal networks are identical. So Homeowner A calls up the ISP

IETF Trust minutes?

2008-02-19 Thread Simon Josefsson
According to the trust administrative procedures: http://trustee.ietf.org/docs/Trust_Procedures_12-15-2005.pdf the trustees should hold at least three meetings per year, and shall appoint a secretary who should record and publish minutes of the meetings. Following the link 'Minutes' from

Re: ISP support models Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 19 feb 2008, at 16:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If nobody writes all of this up into a set of guidelines for implementors of SOHO IPv6 gateways, including some more details on a proper service discovery mechanism, then it isn't going to happen. Well, I was working in

Re: I-D Action:draft-rosenberg-internet-waist-hourglass-00.txt]

2008-02-19 Thread Noel Chiappa
Apologies that this ia a bit old, but it repeats a - sadly - very common misperception that is worth correcting yet again. From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] If a protocol doesn't need port numbers or a UDP-like checksum (i.e., either no checksum or a better one) UDP

Re: ISP support models Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Dan York
On Feb 19, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: However, in much of the world, profit margins for ISPs in the residential and SOHO business are sufficiently thin that a single support call can wipe out a few month's of profits from that account and one that actually requires getting

Re: IETF Trust minutes?

2008-02-19 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Feb 19, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote: According to the trust administrative procedures: http://trustee.ietf.org/docs/Trust_Procedures_12-15-2005.pdf the trustees should hold at least three meetings per year, and shall appoint a secretary who should record and publish minutes

Re: I-D Action:draft-rosenberg-internet-waist-hourglass-00.txt]

2008-02-19 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Feb 19, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: Apologies that this ia a bit old, but it repeats a - sadly - very common misperception that is worth correcting yet again. From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] If a protocol doesn't need port numbers or a UDP-like checksum (i.e.,

Re: I-D Action:draft-rosenberg-internet-waist-hourglass-00.txt]

2008-02-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-02-20 08:34, Marshall Eubanks wrote: ... Not AFAICT in IPv6 : rfc2460 : o Unlike IPv4, when UDP packets are originated by an IPv6 node, the UDP checksum is not optional. That is, whenever originating a UDP packet, an IPv6 node must compute a UDP

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-netlmm-proxymip6-10.txt

2008-02-19 Thread Elwyn Davies
I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviewer for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html). Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments you may receive. Document:

Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Rémi Després
Dan Wing wrote : It would not be an application concern. If users want this kind of strong privacy, Typically, users don't know or care; more often it is the network administrator that cares. Agreed. Users, or network administrators as the case may be, would be better. they activate this

Re: Gen-art review of draft-ietf-netlmm-proxymip6-10.txt

2008-02-19 Thread Sri Gundavelli
Thanks Elwyn for the review. We will address each of these comments and will propose the text, some time this week. Regards Sri On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Elwyn Davies wrote: I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviewer for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please

Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Rémi Després
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: NATs will be needed during the (long) transition period, including some NATs dealing with both IPv6 and IPv4. I don't see how the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 requires NAT in IPv6. I am not advocating "v6 to v6 NATs", as confirmed by some of

Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Rémi Després
Dan Wing wrote : Such 1-for-1 address rewriting does not provide the topology hiding that many people seem to like of their existing NAPT devices, nor does such 1-for-1 address rewriting obscure the number of hosts behind the NAT. Such obscuring can be useful for certain businesses (there

Re: I-D Action:draft-rosenberg-internet-waist-hourglass-00.txt]

2008-02-19 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Feb 19, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2008-02-20 08:34, Marshall Eubanks wrote: ... Not AFAICT in IPv6 : rfc2460 : o Unlike IPv4, when UDP packets are originated by an IPv6 node, the UDP checksum is not optional. That is, whenever

Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Keith, On 2008-02-19 20:02, Keith Moore wrote: I hate to rain on the parade, but... 1. ULAs will give enterprises the addressing autonomy that they seek (as RFC 1918 addresses do with IPv4) Correct. That's available today. ; but that 2. Enterprises will NOT need to use NAT to make those

Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Keith Moore
My point is that this is a solved problem in practice. Probably not solved in the way you or I would like, but solved nevertheless. Perhaps the meaning of solved has changed over the years :) Several years ago I saw a sign that read: Mediocrity is excellence at pursuing the mean.

Re: ISP support models Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-02-20 04:05, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 19 feb 2008, at 15:40, Dan York wrote: Is this important? The external address(es) are still different. Sure, but the home internal networks are identical. So Homeowner A calls up the ISP support and is having a problem getting a

Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Mark Andrews
On 19 feb 2008, at 10:02, Dan Wing wrote: It would be interesting to write it down, and to see what would break if the IP stack acquired and provided a fresh v6 address to every new connection. Maybe nothing would break, which would be great. You really don't want to do that for

Re: ISP support models Re: IPv6 NAT?

2008-02-19 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, Iljitsch, From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 19 feb 2008, at 16:30, Spencer Dawkins wrote: If you really want this, you can simply create a loopback interface with address fc00::1 on it and users can type http:// [fc00::1]/ (ok, so the brackets are annoying, but no NAT

Re: I-D Action:draft-rosenberg-internet-waist-hourglass-00.txt]

2008-02-19 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Feb 19, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2008-02-20 08:34, Marshall Eubanks wrote: ... Not AFAICT in IPv6 : rfc2460 : o Unlike IPv4, when UDP packets are originated by an IPv6 node, the UDP

Last Call: draft-ietf-dccp-dtls (Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) over the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)) to Proposed Standard

2008-02-19 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol WG (dccp) to consider the following document: - 'Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) over the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) ' draft-ietf-dccp-dtls-05.txt as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans

Last Call: draft-ietf-imapext-sort (INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - SORT AND THREAD EXTENSIONS) to Proposed Standard

2008-02-19 Thread The IESG
The IESG is considering the following document again now that important dependencies are ready: - 'INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - SORT AND THREAD EXTENSIONS' draft-ietf-imapext-sort-19.txt as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final

71st IETF - Overflow Hotels

2008-02-19 Thread IETF Secretariat
71st IETF Meeting Philadelphia, PA, USA March 9-14,2008 Host: Comcast The Marriott still has a limited number of rooms available at the group rate but the Doubletree Hotel is currently sold out. We have secured an additional block of rooms at the Hilton Garden Inn, which is approximately