Thomas,

> > > I've reviewed this document and on the whole think it's fine for PS.
> > >
> > > But I do have one general concern. This document requires that an
> > > implementation do what in practice, I think might be "difficult" for
> > > some implementations. While that is OK at one level, I fear that some
> > > implementors will do most of this spec, but not all of it. I wonder if
> > > that would be a good outcome.
>
> BTW, what I meant to say above was more like:
>
>   This document requires that an implementation do things that may
>   logically (if you follow the conceptual sending model) be hard to
>   do, because the information needed to do something may not be
>   available at that point in the algorithm (implementation). I.e., one
>   ends up having to have access to the ND cache info while doing steps
>   that (previously) were logically completely separate from the ND
>   cache.  I wonder if in practice, these might be "difficult" for some
>   implementations.
>

To be more specific, if I understand your concern correctly, the problem is
that the host is required by this to send packets to the router at a time
when it does not have the router's link address?

            jak



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