Gert, On 2018-12-06 22:13, Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 01:48:29PM +1300, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >> And I don't think that is an oversight. The *definition* of "router" >> for IPv6 is "a node that forwards IPv6 packets not explicitly addressed >> to itself." No mention of filtering, classification, admission control,... > > This definition of a router is nice, but such a device will not be > useful in today's Internet. Are you saying that *every* router in a carrier network needs to perform filtering? I would have thought that this would be done where necessary, but intentionally avoided elsewhere, to reduce energy consumption and improve throughput. Anyway... > What do you want this draft to be? Theoretically beautiful, or useful > for people operating outside a closed and well-controlled network? I wasn't actually thinking about this draft; I was just trying to make the (obvious) point that IPv6 was designed a certain way and that is what the IPv6 standards track documents deal with. This draft is directed at the operational community and I fully agree with you that it needs to match operational reality as much as possible. (My issues with the draft were fixed before it moved to IETF Last Call.) Brian
