Thank you for your comments. > Summary: Almost ready for publication as a proposed standard. > > Comments: > Significant: > As I read this protocol, if a Home Agent is beign used, then > packets arriving at the MAP from the Home Agent will be tunneled, > with the original packet inside a header from the HA to the MAP. > The MAP will then wrap that up in a tunnel and ship it to the LCoA. > This means that HMIP nodes that use Home Agents need to be preapred > to receive doubly-encapsulated packets. But there is no description > of this in the Mobile Node Operation section 6.1. > This also seems to imply that for communications where a Home Agent > is being used, and bidirectional tunneling is being used with the > Home Agent, then the Mobile Node needs to generate doubly- > encapsulated packets.
=> Ok, I can add text to emphasise this point. > > The section on detecting MAP failures could use improvement. I > realize that this is the same text as was in RFC 4140. However, it > seems to allow fairly common undetected failures. It seems to me > that stronger warning text about the weaknesses of manual intervention => Sure. > , and the possibility of undetected failures even with some keep- > alive protocols ought to be mentioned. => What type of failures do you have in mind? a reboot that happens between keepalives for example? > > > Minor: > The changes section indicates that Dynamic MAP discovery was > removed. However, section 5 indicates that the distance "SHOULD be > set to 1 if Dynamic MAP discovery is used." => Ok. > > The fourth paragraph of section 6.1 indicates that a Mobile Node > must send a binding update to is Home Agent. If it is using a Home > Agent, this is correct. However, this spec now indicates that a > Home Agent is not mandatory. So this paragraph should say that the > Binding Update must be sent if the Home Agent is being used. => ok. > > Given that Home Agents are option, the second paragraph of 6.1.1 > should be clarified. Either communicating directly with a CN is > only permitted when one has a Home Agent, or the RCoA is permitted > in the Home Address option of the Binding Update. => ok. Hesham _______________________________________________ Gen-art mailing list Gen-art@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/gen-art
