Good afternoon all, >From: "Durand, Alain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 2007/02/05 Mon AM 11:14:10 CST >To: Brian Haberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ipv6@ietf.org >Subject: RE: WG Request: Adopt draft-haberman-ipv6-ra-flags-option-00.txt
>I would like to ask what is the transition plan for "legacy" IPv6 hosts >that do not implement this extension before I could consider this draft >a viable approach. This is a good question. FWIW, at the moment I would expect that the "legacy" IPv6 hosts would ignore the extension and continue processing the RA. Another question seems to be what would happen to hosts which implement/rely upon flags that were un-defined as a result of the "clean-up" process mentioned elsewhere in this e-mail. > >We have a number of bits that are currently defined that may be >questionable, >(the best example: O & M), so I would like to see some more >justification >why more bits are needed for the general RA case and maybe some clean-up >of the current bits before we embark into defining a new space for >potentially questionable new cases. I agree that some more justification (and potentially some subsequent "clean-up") of the already defined bits may be advisable prior to defining new space. > >So, at this point, I do not support this draft. > > - Alain. Best Regards, Tim Enos Rom 8:28 > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Brian Haberman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 12:41 PM >> To: ipv6@ietf.org >> Subject: WG Request: Adopt draft-haberman-ipv6-ra-flags-option-00.txt >> >> All, >> This is a formal call to request IPv6 WG feedback on >> adopting the below draft. The premise of the draft is to >> expand the flags field that is quickly running out of bits. >> >> Please provide your preference (positive or negative) on >> having this document become an IPv6 WG document. Comments on >> the contents are most welcome as well. >> >> Regards, >> Brian >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-haberman-ipv6-ra-flags-option-00.txt >> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:50:01 -0400 >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: i-d-announce@ietf.org >> >> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line >> Internet-Drafts directories. >> >> >> Title : IPv6 Router Advertisement Flags Option >> Author(s) : B. Haberman, R. Hinden >> Filename : draft-haberman-ipv6-ra-flags-option-00.txt >> Pages : 7 >> Date : 2006-8-1 >> >> The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery's Router Advertisement message >> contains an 8-bit field reserved for single-bit flags. >> Several protocols have reserved flags in this field and >> others are preparing to reserve a sufficient number of flags >> to exhaust the field. This document defines an option to the >> Router Advertisement message that expands the available >> number of flag bits available. >> >> >> A URL for this Internet-Draft is: >> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-haberman-ipv6-ra-fla >> gs-option-00.txt >> >> > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >IETF IPv6 working group mailing list >ipv6@ietf.org >Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 >-------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
