> Subject: Re: [6lowpan] Working Group Charter > From: Geoff Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:42:06 -0600 > [...] > Too bad that we have to rehash this again because you are coming late to > this discussion. We dealt with this issue already and the IESG said > that an implementation that did not include IPsec and the like was still > an implementation of IPv6. ...
Could you provide a reference for this guidance? Here is what the chair of the IETF and the IESG said when I posed the question about subsetting IPv6 to the main IETF mail list: > Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:12:46 +0200 > From: Brian E Carpenter <brc@> > Cc: "Timothy J. Salo" <salo@>, [email protected] > Subject: Re: IPv6 Subsets? > > You might also want to look at RFC 4294 > (IPv6 Node Requirements). > > Brian And, here is what one of our Area Directors, (also a member of the IESG), said: > Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:14:20 +0300 > From: Jari Arkko <jari.arkko@> > To: "Timothy J. Salo" <salo@> > Cc: juha.wiljakka@ [email protected] > Subject: Re: IPv6 Subsets? > > RFC 4294 contains the most recent summary information > on what nodes should support from IPv6. The detailed > MUST/SHOULD/MAY requirements are in the IPv6 > specifications themselves. > > (RFC 3316 that Juha pointed to is a discussion of issues > related to running IPv6 over cellular interfaces. The > type of the interface that you are using does impact what > you need to support, at least in terms of what IPv6 over > Foo you need to support, what configuration options > make sense, etc.) > > --Jari Note that Jari is also a co-author of RFC 4294. Having said that, I believe that, at least from an engineering perspective, implementing a subset of IPv6, [a smaller subset than is permitted under RFC 4294], may make sense for wireless PANs. However, if we conclude that this is a good idea, we need to understand that implementing a subset of IPv6 conflicts with the prevailing view of many in the IETF. As such, if we want to implement less of IPv6 than is permitted under RFC 4294, we should start preparing our arguments about why wireless PANs are different from other environments. -tjs _______________________________________________ 6lowpan mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lowpan
