Re: [GLOBAL-V6]IPv6 Allocation Policy

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Brian and all,

Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> "Craig A. Huegen" wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 21 May 2003, Michel Py wrote:
> >
> > > Yep. In the end, a specific announcement being filtered and sending the
> > > traffic to a different entry point than it should have results in paying
> > > three times transit for the traffic:
> >
> > ...keep in mind that this breaks stateful firewalling too, unless state is
> > shared across the entire network (which is pretty significant when
> > you're talking about passing and replicating messages for every single
> > connection out of the network).
>
> And people wonder why we say that state is evil, and distributed state
> is more evil. I don't think we should design policy for stateful firewalls.

  Surely you don't really believe that the "State" is evil?  If so I believe
that would be in contrast to IBM's stated policy's.  In any event no
state itself is evil but any state may have leaders that are inherently
evil or act in evil ways.

>
>
> I think we're drifting away from the question of what the policy should
> say. The point, I think, was to ease the wording to allow for
> giving /32s in any case where common sense would allow it.

  What "Common Sense" is that Brian?  Whom determines what
constitutes said "Common Sense" in suck allocation matters?  In
other words Brian, you seem to be over generalizing here.

>
>
>    Brian
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