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Re: Posted a new copy of CPE Rtr draft



As I said, there is a very reasonable algorithm in the most common case, which is that the home router is the only router present. To go beyond that, I think your document should be referring to the implementation of another RFC, and to my knowledge that hasn't been written. That was the consensus of the meeting at IETF 74, you will recall.

On Jul 20, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Wes Beebee (wbeebee) wrote:

By the way, there are many words of caution that apply to auto-sub-
delegation of prefixes. In general, one
wants them to aggregate in a nice way without all the issues of
renumbering. That means in part that there must
be some way to recognize when it is inappropriate to use the
algorithm, such as saying that it is appropriate
to networks using PA prefixes and in which internal aggregation is not
in use. If my upstream gives me a /60,
there isn't a lot to discuss. If the upstream gives a /56 or a /48 and
the site in question has multiple
campuses, auto-sub-delegation is probably pretty difficult to get
right.

Perhaps what we need here is a default algorithm for auto-sub- delegation that produces reasonable results in common cases with a manual override
so that if you don't like the results, you can always do it yourself.

- Wes