Also you might want to consider the discussions on: - Address resolution on p2p links - Clarifying the meaning of the M and O bits - Other MIP related discussions
Hesham > -----Original Message----- > From: Pekka Savola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:25 AM > To: Brian Haberman > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Updates to Neighbor Discovery and Stateless > Autoconfiguration > > > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Brian Haberman wrote: > > One of our charter items is to produce updates of > > RFC 2461 and 2462 in order to progress them to Draft Standard. > > As a part of that effort, I would like to bring to the Work > > Group's attention, some work that has been done in SEND. > > > > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-send-psreq-03.txt > > outlines several security issues that exist in NDP and in > > Stateless Autonconfiguration. So as a part of the effort to > > revise 2461 and 2462, I am soliciting the WG's thoughts on how > > to incorporate the work done in the SEND document into the > > base specifications. My primary goal is to come to a balance > > of existing functionality vs. enhanced security capability. > > The SEND work is not the only thing which has proposed (or > uncovered a > potential need for) modifications ini RFC2461/2462. Some > requests have > surfaced already in the Mobile IP space as well. > > I'd encourage you to go through the archives. There has been a > significant amount of discussion on many ambiguous pieces of the spec > (e.g. dead code in RFC2462 section 5.5.3 e, ambiguities > about decrementing > the Lifetime counters, etc.). I'd hope that someone (e.g. > one of the > original authors) would have archived the relevant threads for later > perusal. > > In addition, draft-roy-v6ops-v6onbydefault-01.txt (will be > updated soon to > v6ops WG document) has identified a set of serious problems with the > "on-link by default" rule. Expect a companion document > describing the > tradeoffs of changing RFC2461/2 in this regard shortly. > > Hope this helps to get into the swing.. > > -- > Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the > Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." > Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
