I'd like to thank Owen for explaning his point of view with such clarity
and I'd like to concur with him by rephrasing in my own words (most of
this has already been said by others thought).
Taking the objections in order, again:
1. Allocation of a special-use /10 does not hasten the deployment of IPv6.
It only extends the life of the IPv4 network.
Indeed. This affirmation is entirely true IMHO. However the stone-cold
reality is that IPv6 is not yet ready despite huge multi-years efforts by
the community and many service providers (speaking by experience here).
The huge IPv4-only installed base and the lack of IPv6 support by vendors
can't be ignored wherever the blame is put.
2. If a special-use /10 is allocated, it will be used as additional RFC
1918 address space, despite a specific prohibition against such use stated
by the draft.
Of course. Mark has pointed it out already, we don't need the prohibition
to be *enforced*, only to have it *written* in the document. If a
provider's client complains of overlap, then the burden of renumbering is
on him, not on the ISP or anybody else.
3. If a special-use /10 is allocated, it will encourage others to request
still more special-use address space.
I doubt "others", whoever they are, will have 1) sufficient justification
and 2) time to do so.
4. Some applications will break. These applications share the
characteristic of assuming that an interface is globally reachable if it
is numbered by an non-RFC 1918 address. To date, the only application that
has been identified as breaking is 6to4, but others may be identified in
the future.
Applications will break anyway with squat space or multiple overlapping
RFC1918 space. As Owen and others pointed out, at least with a known
prefix it can be fixed in a consistent manner.
CGN will happen and is already happening now because it's the only
rational way to keep a service provider business running, whether one like
it or not. Dedicated addressing space will only make this deployment
cleaner than if it's done with squat space.
In my very humble opinion, draft Weil is definitely the lesser of to evils
here. Just as an example, what suspiciously looks like squat space can be
seen now (*>i47.154.0.0/16 ... 3561 701 9929 4808 4808 i). At least with a
dedicated prefix it can be properly filtered and blackholed.
These were my 2 (Canadian) cents.
JF Tremblay
Long time IPv6 enthusiast and Sr IPv6 Engineer at Videotron
(The opinions contained here are my own and do not necessarily reflect the
views of my $employer or any other affiliation)
I strongly support both of these drafts.
Allocation of the /10 will have only minimal negative impacts on the
community, if any.
Almost all of the impacts raised in the objections to draft weil will
occur whether or not
draft weil is moved to BCP status. The difference is that with draft weil
in place, most of
them can actually be mitigated whereas no such mitigation will be possible
without
draft weil.
Delaying draft weil is, in this case, roughly equivalent to refusing it
because operators
are going to have to start implementing CGN and other IPv4 exhaustion
coping
mechanisms whether the IETF is ready or not.
The objections listed in Ron's sending this to IESG ballot are:
- Allocation of a special-use /10 does not hasten the deployment of IPv6.
It only extends the life of the IPv4 network.
- If a special-use /10 is allocated, it will be used as additional RFC
1918 address space, despite a specific prohibition against such use stated
by the draft.
- If a special-use /10 is allocated, it will encourage others to request
still more special-use address space.
- Some applications will break. These applications share the
characteristic of assuming that an interface is globally reachable if it
is numbered by an non-RFC 1918 address. To date, the only application that
has been identified as breaking is 6to4, but others may be identified in
the future.
Taking each objection in order:
- Allocation of a special-use /10 does not hasten the deployment of IPv6.
It only extends the life of the IPv4 network.
The first part of this statement is true. The second half is not an
entirely accurate
characterization. What this /10 will do is enable carriers and ISPs to
provide services
to end users in a consistent manner that vendors can adapt to. Absent this
shared
transition space, the uses for this space will not magically disappear and
all of the
problems described will still exist. The primary resulting difference will
be that it
will consume more global unicast addresses and create more potential for
collision
and other negative consequences while simultaneously removing all hope of
allowing vendors to provide mitigation in software.
I am one of the biggest IPv6 cheerleaders in the industry, but, I also
have to work
within the framework of operational reality. We're going to run out of
IPv4 before
everyone is ready, whether we like it or not. ISPs are going to have to
cope with
some various forms of IPv4 services for their customers after exhaustion.
No matter
what, this will be a bad situation. Failing to allocate this /10 will make
it worse.
- If a special-use /10 is allocated, it will be used as additional RFC
1918 address space, despite a specific prohibition against such use stated
by the draft.
I'm not convinced this argument is true, but, it can be made about
virtually any RFC
reserving space. Any special use or conventional allocation can be used in
a manner
contrary to it's prescribed intent. Rejecting this request with strong
support and definite
need from the operational community will not prevent misuse of address
space, it will
create the inevitable increase in such misuse as providers are forced to
scramble
to the use of "dark space", re-use of global unicast space, and other less
than ideal
solutions for this purpose.
- If a special-use /10 is allocated, it will encourage others to request
still more special-use address space.
I just don't see this. Nobody made this objection to the Documentation
prefixes. Nobody made this
objection to localhost getting a /8. Why is this special use request any
more likely to encourage
more such requests than any other?
- Some applications will break. These applications share the
characteristic of assuming that an interface is globally reachable if it
is numbered by an non-RFC 1918 address. To date, the only application that
has been identified as breaking is 6to4, but others may be identified in
the future.
All of the applications that will break if providers use this space will
also break if providers
use any of the following:
RFC-1918 that collides with the customers internal
network.
Dark space
Recycled Global Unicast Space
Class E space
The difference is that with this allocation, providers will all break in
the same consistent
way and vendors can mitigate the breakage through software upgrades in
some (many)
cases. Without this allocation, providers will use some random mixture of
all of the above
in an uncoordinated and undefined way, making it impossible for vendors to
provide any
mitigation to such breakage.
Respectfully Submitted,
Owen DeLong
Co-author draft-bdgks
IPv6 Evangelist
Director Professional Services
Hurricane Electric
Member, ARIN Advisory Council
The opinions contained here are my own and do not necessarily reflect the
views of my employer, ARIN, or the ARIN Advisory Council.
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