diff --git a/draft-nbourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6.xml b/draft-nbourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6.xml index 9b01e81..caf2d19 100644 --- a/draft-nbourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6.xml +++ b/draft-nbourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6.xml @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ rate is low enough. -
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For host computers on local area networks, generation of interface identifiers is no longer necessarily bound to layer 2 addresses @@ -147,11 +147,10 @@ rate is low enough. - As IPv6 usage has evolved and grown over in recent years, it has - become evident that it faces several scaling and coordination - problems. These problems are analogous to allocation and - coordination problems that motivated IPv4 CIDR allocation and later - abundant IPv4 PAT, they include: + As IPv6 use has evolved and grown, it has become evident that it + faces several scaling and coordination problems. These problems are + analogous to allocation and coordination problems that motivated IPv4 + CIDR allocation and later abundant IPv4 PAT, they include: @@ -163,17 +162,23 @@ rate is low enough. Hierarchical allocation of fixed-length subnets requires coordination between lower / intermediate / upper network elements. It has implicit assumption that policies and size - allocation allowed the top of the hierarchy will accommodate + allocation allowed at the top of the hierarchy will accommodate present and future use cases with fixed length subnet allocation. Coordination with upstream networks across administrative - domains for the allocation of fixed length subnets reveals - topology and intent that may be private in scope. Policies for + domains for the allocation of fixed length subnets reveals topology + and intent that may be private in scope, allowing the upstream + networks to restrict the topology that may be built. Policies for hierarchical allocation are applied top-down and amount to permission to build a particular topology (for example mobile - device tethering, virtual machine instantiation, containers and - so on). + device tethering, virtual machine instantiation, containers and so + on). + + In the case where a device is given a /64 (e.g. mobile phone + running SLAAC only, not DHCP), there is no protocol allowing them + to provide downstream routed layer 3 subnets, because all they have + is a /64. This applies more to nodes which do not have DHCPv6. @@ -269,14 +274,14 @@ rate is low enough.
The authors of this document are as follows: - Randy Bush, Internet Initiative Japan - Brian Carpenter, University of Auckland - Fernando Gont, SI6 Networks / UTN-FRH - Nick Hilliard, INEX - Joel Jaeggli, Fastly - Geoff Huston, APNIC - Chris Morrow, Google, Inc. - Job Snijders, NTT Communications + Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, Internet Initiative Japan + Brian Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>, University of Auckland + Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>, SI6 Networks / UTN-FRH + Nick Hilliard <nick@netability.ie>, INEX + Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>, Fastly + Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>, APNIC + Chris Morrow <morrowc@ops-netman.net>, Google, Inc. + Job Snijders <morrowc@ops-netman.net>, NTT Communications