Supplementary question:

Is the change from SHA-1 (in RFC 4193) to SHA256 (in this draft) intentional? If so (and I presume that it is, given that SHA-1 seems to be in disrepute), then the statements in Section 6.10.2 of the ACP document:

"The first 48 bits follow the ULA scheme, as defined in [RFC4193], to which a type field is added:"

will have to be altered to note the change from SHA-1 to SHA256.

  Bill

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: [Anima] Section 6.10.2 of draft-ietf-anima-autonomic-control-plane
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 13:43:54 -0400
From: William Atwood <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]

Para 2, bullet 2, says the following:

"The 40 bits ULA "global ID" (term from [RFC4193]) for ACP
addresses carried in the domain information field of domain
certificates are the first 40 bits of the SHA256 hash of the
routing subdomain from the same domain information field. In the
example of Section 6.1.1, the routing subdomain is
"area51.research.acp.example.com" and the 40 bits ULA "global ID"
a379a6f6ee."

Since I wanted to see what the SHA256 hash would be for an Autonomic Network that I plan to create in my lab, I went looking for SHA256 hash generators on-line.

For two different on-line generators, I get the following results:

http://www.xorbin.com/tools/sha256-hash-calculator
area51.research.acp.example.com
89b714f3db8e41558cfb49d4d763ee7cc5ae53a3ffe8a17039679d06dc9bb0e3

http://passwordsgenerator.net/sha256-hash-generator/
area51.research.acp.example.com
89B714F3DB8E41558CFB49D4D763EE7CC5AE53A3FFE8A17039679D06DC9BB0E3

These give identical results, but the first 40 bits have no (apparent) relationship with the result cited in the ACP draft.

Does anyone have any idea which one is wrong, and why?

  Bill

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