Re: [v6ops] Last Call: <draft-ietf-v6ops-6204bis-09.txt> (Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers) to Informational RFC

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In message <m2r4t0jx2l.wl%randy@xxxxxxx>, Randy Bush writes:
> > - 'Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers'
> >   <draft-ietf-v6ops-6204bis-09.txt> as Informational RFC
> 
> this document persists in confusing routing and forwarding.
> 
> there are no routing protocols, a la 1812, here.  there is confused text
> such as
> 
> 4.1.  General Requirements
> 
>    The IPv6 CE router is responsible for implementing IPv6 routing; that
>    is, the IPv6 CE router must look up the IPv6 destination address in
>    its routing table to decide to which interface it should send the
>    packet.
> 
> which i thought was forwarding, not routing.

It's static routing.  And if there is down stream PD there will be
next hop routers as well as interfaces in the table.

> RA/RD doeth not a router make.
> 
> randy
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