Re: NIST IPv6 document

[Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>]

On 1/6/2011 12:26 AM, Joe Greco wrote:
> A bunch of very smart people have worked on IPv6 for a very long
> time, and justification for /64's was hashed out at extended length
> over the period of years.

NDP should have been better designed. It still has the same problems we 
had with ARP except the address pool has magnified it.

Routers should have 1) better methods for keeping ND tables low (and 
maintaining only valid entries) or 2) better methods for learning valid 
entries than unsolicited NDP requests.

This isn't to say the protocol itself is a waste, but it should have 
taken in the concerns and developed the mitigation controls necessary as 
recommendations to the implementers.


Jack