Remi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Rémi Després
> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 11:04 PM
> To: Ole Troan
> Cc: [email protected]; Templin, Fred L
> Subject: Re: [Softwires] SOFTWIRE working group last call on 6rd
> 
> Hi Fred,
> 
> Although the SEAL approach has IMHO some merit of its own for some 
> generalized tunneling scenarios,
> using it  in 6rd would defeat the objective of simplicity for "rapid 
> deployment" of IPv6.

There is an opportunity at hand to get tunneling done right
the first time and then have a long-term quality IPv6 service.
6rd is a large piece to the puzzle, but there are other pieces
that would make for a more complete solution. IMHO, we can
have it both ways of doing it fast *and* doing it right on
the first iteration.

Fred
[email protected]

> The draft should therefore proceed as is on this subject.
> 
> RD
> 
> > Fred,
> >
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:[email protected]]
> >>> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:09 PM
> >>> To: Templin, Fred L
> >>> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> >>> Subject: Re: [Softwires] SOFTWIRE working group last call on 6rd
> >>>
> >>> Hi Fred,
> >>>
> >>> On 2010-02-26 06:25, Templin, Fred L wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> >>>>> Behalf Of Alexandre
> Cassen
> >>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 2:05 AM
> >>>>> To: [email protected]
> >>>>> Subject: Re: [Softwires] SOFTWIRE working group last call on 6rd
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:43:00 -0500, Durand, Alain wrote:
> >>>>>> We'd like to announce the softwire WG LC on the 6rd technology. I've
> >>>>>> copied both SOFTWIRE and DHC mailing lists and solicit comments from
> >>>>>> both groups of experts. The draft is here:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-softwire-ipv6-6rd-07.txt
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Please reply with comments to this thread by 2010.03.08 at 1700 PST
> >>>>> This document truly depict what we are running into production in our
> >>>>> backbone here. I strongly support it!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I read some post on the ML regarding fragmentation and MTU related.
> >>>>> IMHO, section 9.1 is enough explicit, anyone playing around with
> >>>>> encapsulation will face at one point MTU issues and fragmentation, it is
> >>>>> really common. Any operational networking guy will/have to keep in mind
> >>>>> this MTU stuff while designing/setting up its encapsulation
> >>>>> architecture. What is important here, 6rd is operating inside a specific
> >>>>> routing domain so that if there is MTU/fragmentation issues then it is
> >>>>> networking domain designer job/responsibility to fix it ! if networking
> >>>>> design has been made into a crappy way then it will transitively operate
> >>>>> into a crappy way too. IMHO, it should certainly not be the focus of an
> >>>>> operational protocol draft, like 6rd, to provide a networking course.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> In our production env, MTU is set to 1480 at CPE side.
> >>>>
> >>>> Here's another thing to consider wrt the 1480. Once the
> >>>> CPE statically sets a 1480, it will be next to impossible
> >>>> to get it to set something larger in the future.
> >>>
> >>> So what? 6RD is definitely a transition technique running over
> >>> legacy IPv4. I think we have running code experience that
> >>> defaulting the MTU to 1480 will work in most normal circumstances,
> >>> whereas reliance on PMTUD is known to be problematic.
> >>
> >> To be clear, I am not asking for reliance on PMTUD. I am
> >> instead asking for reliance on something better than that
> >> (SEAL) so that no artificial limits like 1480 are needed.
> 
> See above.
> 
> >>
> >>> If 1480
> >>> becomes an issue, it will become part of the motivation to upgrade
> >>> to native IPv6.
> >>
> >> This kind of argument strikes me as a business-oriented
> >> rather than technical viewpoint on the problem space. We
> >> now have technologies by which we can deploy tunneled
> >> service that is as good as or perhaps even better than
> >> native (and yes, I include 6rd as part of the solution).
> >> So, why not have a once-and-done deployment now as opposed
> >> to putting up a temporary service which we know will need
> >> replacement in the near future? So that network equipment
> >> vendors can sell more products and services?
> >
> > I do agree that MTU handling is a general problem, and not even just for 
> > tunnels.
> > I thought we agreed while discussing earlier versions of this draft, not to 
> > encumber the 6rd
> specification with the general solutions to these MTU problems.
> 
> This is IMHO the right approach.
> 
> > 6rd references RFC4213 for most of the tunnel mechanics. could we move that 
> > debate to rfc4213bis or
> something?
> >
> > cheers,
> > Ole
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