RE: A straightforward transition plan (was: Re: V6 still not supported)

2023-01-12 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Hello Masataka-san > When I mentioned a problem for the first time in IPng or IPv6 (I can't > find any archive, are there any?) list, Christian Huitema mentioned it > could be solved by ND over NBMA but the problem is not NB but broadcast > of Wifi is unreliable. > > As such, the solutions

Re: A straightforward transition plan (was: Re: V6 still not supported)

2023-01-11 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Hello Masataka-san For that issue at least there was some effort. Though ATM and FR appear to be long gone, the problem got even worse with pseudo wires / overlays and wireless. It was tackled in the IoT community 10+ years ago and we ended up with RFC 8505 and 8928. This is implemented in

RE: IoT - The end of the internet

2022-08-10 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
age- > From: Saku Ytti > Sent: mercredi 10 août 2022 7:14 > To: Pascal Thubert (pthubert) > Cc: Mel Beckman ; nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: IoT - The end of the internet > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 at 07:54, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG > wrote: > > > On a

Re: IoT - The end of the internet

2022-08-09 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
On a more positive note, the IPv6 IoT can be seen as an experiment on how we can scale the internet another order of magnitude or 2 without taking the power or the spectrum consumption to the parallel levels. For that we turned protocols like ND and MLD from broadcast pull to unicast push in a

RE: Ready to compromise? was RE: V6 still not supported

2022-04-20 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Dear Abe: Yes, this is plain IP in IP. For a router does not know about YADA, this looks like the most basic form of tunnel you can get. Which is where the inner/outer terminology comes from. All very classical. We could do an over-UDP variation if people want it. I used a condensed format to

Ready to compromise? was RE: V6 still not supported

2022-04-08 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Dear all Following advice from thus list, I updated the YADA I-Draft (latest is https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thubert-v6ops-yada-yatt-03.html, more to come soon if feedback is heard) and proposed it to the v6ops WG at the IETF. For memory, the main goal here is to find a compromise as

RE: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-05 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
enefits of it other than just moving to IPv6? Regards, Dave On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 08:24, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG mailto:nanog@nanog.org>> wrote: Hello Matthew At the moment the draft has a general architecture, and it will take the right minds and experience to turn a m

RE: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-05 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Considering this requires updating every single IP stack that wants to utilise this, what are the benefits of it other than just moving to IPv6? Regards, Dave On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 08:24, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG mailto:nanog@nanog.org>> wrote: Hello Matthew At the moment the dra

RE: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-05 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Hello Matthew At the moment the draft has a general architecture, and it will take the right minds and experience to turn a model into a live network. Considering what the people in this list have already built, it’s no gigantic leap to figure they can build that too. Most of the building

Re: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-04 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
ot enough bits for Shaft. If you would appoint Governments as the Shaft responsible then would be a so big scandal that you would regret the proposal. Hence, I do not see proper mapping for the hierarchy to make YADA successful. Eduard From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+vasilenko.eduard<mailt

Re: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-04 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
uld regret the proposal. Hence, I do not see proper mapping for the hierarchy to make YADA successful. Eduard From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+vasilenko.eduard<mailto:nanog-bounces%2Bvasilenko.eduard>=huawei@nanog.org<mailto:huawei@nanog.org>] On Behalf Of Pascal Thubert (pthub

Re: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-04 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
headers (from IPv4 to IPv6). >>> Who should implement this gateway and why? He should be formally >>> appointed to such an exercise, right? >>> Map this 2 level hierarchy to the real world – you may fail with this. >>> Ed/ >>> From: Pascal Thubert

Re: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-04 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
gt; be a Default Free Zone? >> I agree with your real world issue that some things will have to be >> planned between stake holders, and that it will not be easy. >> But you know what the French say about “impossible”. >> Or to paraphrase Sir Arthur, now that we have eliminated

RE: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-04 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
dredi 1 avril 2022 14:32 > To: Pascal Thubert (pthubert) <mailto:pthub...@cisco.com>; Justin Streiner > <mailto:strein...@gmail.com>; Abraham Y. Chen <mailto:ayc...@avinta.com> > Subject: RE: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: > 202203261833.AYC &g

RE: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-04 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
re: > 202203261833.AYC > > Hi Pascal, > In general, your idea to create a hierarchy is good. > In practice, it would fail because you have created a virtual hierarchy > that does not map to any administrative border. Who should implement > gateways for the “Shaft”? Why? > If you woul

RE: V4 via V6 and IGP routing protocols

2022-04-04 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Hello Ohta-san > it is hopeless. If you look at it, LS - as OSPF and ISIS use it - depends on the fact that all nodes get the same information and react the same way. Isn't that hopeless too? Clearly, the above limits LS applicability to stable links and topologies, and powered devices. This

RE: V4 via V6 and IGP routing protocols

2022-04-04 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Hello Dave: There's RFC 8950 in the context of BGP. That's a refresher of RFC 5589 which is the one we typically refer to internally. I glanced at homenet too early, and then too late. Too early, it seemed that the protocol would be OSPFv3; no discussion. So I left till too late, when the

RE: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-02 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
overnments as the Shaft responsible then would be a so big scandal that you would regret the proposal. Hence, I do not see proper mapping for the hierarchy to make YADA successful. Eduard From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+vasilenko.eduard=huawei@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Pascal Thubert (pthubert) v

RE: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-01 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
point Governments as the Shaft responsible then would be a so big scandal that you would regret the proposal. Hence, I do not see proper mapping for the hierarchy to make YADA successful. Eduard From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+vasilenko.eduard=huawei....@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Pascal Thubert

RE: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-04-01 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Hello Ohta-san > > - there's no way to know if 2 locations are OK (anycast) > > If you mean IPv6 anycast to allow 2 or more hosts sharing an anycast address, > it is just broken not useful for any purpose and ignored. One case I have in mind is when one wants to bundle multiple physical

RE: V6 still not supported

2022-04-01 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
age001.png@01D842A4.69CBE6F0] Hmm. -Original Message- From: NANOG mailto:nanog-bounces+rkremeier=barryelectric@nanog.org>> On Behalf Of Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG Sent: Monday, March 28, 2022 11:55 AM To: Philip Homburg mailto:pch-nano...@u-1.phicoh.com>>

RE: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-01 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
There are 2 ways to stop a war: 1) one side it utterly defeated and disaggregated 2) both sides suffered enough and agree to start thinking of the best terms for coexistence 1) is not close to happening any time soon From this, the conclusion is that we have not suffered enough. On the side,

RE: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-01 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
For the sake of it, Justin, I just published https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-thubert-v6ops-yada-yatt/. The first section of the draft (YADA) extends IPv4 range in an IPv4-only world. For some people that might be enough and I’m totally fine with that. Keep safe; Pascal From: NANOG On

RE: V6 still not supported

2022-04-01 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
He he, why do you think YADA starts with yet another? The devil is in the details I guess. AA makes A twice longer, that's the easy piece. But then, what is the story for the A->AA transition? The key piece the concept of the shaft, that enables to transit AA between levels while seeing plain

RE: V6 still not supported

2022-04-01 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
A very long thread. Face it: everyone is right, and even technically correct. There's no good and evil. We'd know, after 20 years. I live in France and my country has a famous 100-years war in its long history with England. Do we want to beat this here? The plain truth: - IPv4 is here to

RE: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-04-01 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
> > Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote: > > > You're perfectly correct. This is exactly what the registration would > > be for. I'm concerned about its adoption that I do not see coming on > > Wi-Fi/ Ethernet, even for v6 (SLAAC) where the problem is a lot > > worse*. > > You can't expect people

RE: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-03-31 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Hi Eduard And SDN, and overlays, and... I certainly agree with what you're saying. This is why the L3 tech has to keep evolving as a survival trait. It's a delicate balance between evolving too quickly and producing the impression on unstable tech in the one hand, and stalling in the

RE: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-31 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Fun, I had a parallel experience with NEMO that I implemented in IOS. But I mostly read the fate of MIP and NEMO as a lack of ask. Which is similar to the lack of desire today for the uplifts we made to IPv6 as a whole, and ND in particular. Anyway, RPL has a lot to do with what we learned

RE: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-31 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
son > Sent: jeudi 31 mars 2022 13:44 > To: nanog@nanog.org > Cc: Pascal Thubert (pthubert) ; Masataka Ohta > > Subject: Re: IPv6 "bloat" history > > On 3/29/22 5:21 AM, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG wrote: > > * APs today snoop DHCP; DHCP is observa

RE: A straightforward transition plan (was: Re: V6 still not supported)

2022-03-31 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Hi Mark and all: Indeed, we have a plethora of IPv4 encapsulation and 4-to-6 techniques. I read somewhere down the threads that we (at IETF) made a "stupendously" bad bet thinking that IPv6 would be generalized quickly thanks to those techniques. Being partially guilty of that (e.g., but not

RE: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-29 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Hello Ohta-san > An ARP table entry can be created when an IP address is assigned during > registration process and destroyed if the registration is invalidated. > > Or, do I misunderstand anything? You're perfectly correct. This is exactly what the registration would be for. I'm concerned

Re: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-28 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Hello Ohta-San I tried exactly what you suggested for IPv6 with RFC 8505 and 8929. But to few people in mainstream networks realize what you just said. It started long long ago with the idea to use inverse ARP for the registration, I guess it is still doable but I am not optimistic about

RE: V6 still not supported

2022-03-28 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Seems that we lost sync. I would not rephrase so I made it a draft to make it easy to socialize: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thubert-v6ops-yada-yatt-00.html The goal is NOT to allow any IPv4 host to talk to any IPv6 host. For that I agree you need the traditional transition

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-25 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Hello Phil The only far ressemblance with 6to4 is the thing that was actually nice in the design, the automatic word in automatic tunnel. Which for the rest of us means stateless. Compared to CGNATs that is huge. Beyond that the proposal is not a tunnel and more akin to a nat64 since it

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-25 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
. No one yet answered me on the technical aspects. That kind of baffles me. Keep safe; Pascal > Le 25 mars 2022 à 03:17, John Gilmore a écrit : > > Pascal Thubert \(pthubert\) via NANOG wrote: >> I'm personally fond of the IP-in-IP variation that filed in 20+ years >

RE: V6 still not supported

2022-03-24 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
OK so you really did not read my post, even now. The tech I described was pure v4. It would pass your gateway. The only we can talk is that we listen to each other... Quoting the text so you do not need to look it up: " My frustration is that indeed (as a dev guy) we have been trying hard to

RE: V6 still not supported

2022-03-24 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Hello Mark: > Any such "transition plan" whether "working" or "straightforward" is > logically impossible. Why anyone thinks such a mythical plan might yet be > formulated some 20+ years after deploying any of ipv6, ipv4++ or ipv6-lite is > absurd. This is dishonest, considering that I just

RE: V6 still not supported Re: 202203231017.AYC

2022-03-23 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
that we can identify, as we discuss more. I look forward to your thoughts and critiques. Regards, Abe (2022-03-23 11:59 EDT) On 2022-03-23 05:01, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG wrote: I see the same thing from the other side, being a S/W developer for switching and routing boxes since the ea

RE: V6 still not supported

2022-03-23 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
I see the same thing from the other side, being a S/W developer for switching and routing boxes since the early 90's. The PM barrier is a high wall indeed. And yet some techs succeed to pass it. What I'm arguing is that we can pass that wall if we work together with the same objective. I've

RE: V6 still not supported

2022-03-22 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Complaining is fun and healthy. But I was unclear, not asking about v4 vs. v6, but about caring for / contributing to evolution of network protocols, or not. Some evolution has happened in the IPv6 world, more could happen, so it gets better. Or throw the baby? Keep safe; Pascal >

RE: V6 still not supported

2022-03-22 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Hi: IPv4 is 40 years old. IPv6 is 25 years old. In Internet time, both are old timers. Since then, networks have evolved dramatically, with new physical media like wireless that hates broadcasts, and new logical constructs like overlays in cloud and SD WAN which require new IP abstractions

RE: V6 still not supported

2022-03-17 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Hello Saku: > > This is intended to replace ARP, ICMP Router Advertisement, ICMP > > Redirect, ICMP Information, ICMP Mask, and OSPF Hello in the > [IPv6] > > environment. There are also elements of the OSI ES-IS and IS-IS > Hello. > > > > We were forward looking to deployments of

Re: EVPN P2MP Implementation

2021-07-15 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Hello Joel Far from widely available but: - we updated IPv6 ND for P2MP with RFC8505 - address ownership can be protected with RFC 8928 - early work is available for eVPN with https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-thubert-bess-secure-evpn-mac-signaling-00 All this is IPv6 only and not

how many bits of entropy do we need for load balancing?

2020-12-14 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Dear all: How many bits of entropy do we need for (ECMP) load balancing in the core? This question has kept coming up regularly in many discussions and drafts at the IETF. The IPv6 flow label is 20 bits but hardware implementations do their balancing only on a subset of that, e.g. 12 or 16

Re: understanding IPv6

2020-06-08 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Hello Baldur; There’s the hack that can be helpful and then there’s the proper solution. As for hacks, indeed snooping can help a lot. As it goes we went for ND and DHCP snooping rather than MLD and there are many reasons for that, reliability, Desire to know the address not just the snma

Re: understanding IPv6

2020-06-08 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Hello Joel: The draft is supposed to be factual not divagations; if I went too far somewhere I need to fix the draft. As you said it is early personal submission. Multi links subnets are not a figment of my mind. We have millions of routers deployed that way, using RPL as the subnet routing

FW: RFC6550 (RPL) and RFC6775 (IPv6 Neighbor Discovery for 6LoWPANs)

2020-06-01 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
I take the “there was no NBMA” off, then, Wes, you’re correct. I’ll add a ref to RFC 5942 in section 4.4 that discusses the use of on-link flag. Note that Hub and spoke is a very limited conception of NBMA. Think of an IOT network such as a RPL domain, or a frame relay network with OSPFv2 NBMA