OK, it seems that we can safely say that it's not our problem.  I am
fine with reducing the information to just one bit (perhaps in PANA
header?) to indicate POPA acquisition is needed.

Yoshihiro Ohba


On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 04:08:28PM +0300, Alper Yegin wrote:
> > > Section 8.12:
> > >
> > > >   o  PPAC AVP: Post-PANA-Address-Configuration AVP.  Used to indicate
> > > >      the available/chosen IP address configuration methods that can be
> > > >      used by the PaC after successful PANA authentication.
> > >
> > > Why does PANA need to control or announce this policy/capability?
> > > Once authentication is finished, the PaC or PAA should be able to issue
> > a
> > > DHCP Inform or do whatever it likes to obtain a new IP address, and it
> > is
> > > up to
> > > the policy of that protocol to be rejected or not. This kind of
> > > "list of possible other protocols you can run after PANA" creates layer
> > > bindings that I don't think you want the PANA protocol to have to
> > maintain.
> > > What if the IP address is being allocated by IPCP? What about some
> > future
> > > version of IKE or some other configuration? What about some other
> > > type of tunnel that can configure IP addresses? I don't see the
> > advantage
> > > of constraining yourself here, or poking into the rest of the IP stack
> > > in this manner.
> > 
> > If we don't define PPAC AVP, how the PaC can/should choose the IP
> > address method for obtaining POPA address?

> 
> The answer to that could be "how does any host choose it today?"
> Meaning, maybe this is not our problem.
> 
> I wonder if there is any PANA-specific aspect here that suggests us solving
> this "discovery and selection" problem for the PaCs.
> 
> One thing though... In case the PRPA and POPA are different (a PANA aspect),
> the PAA still needs to tell the PaC to configure POPA. Maybe all we need is
> one bit of information (a Boolean).
> 
> Alper
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