Re: scope id querry

2002-10-16 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 16:15:29 +0100, Arun Prasad [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Some doubts on the socket api for Ipv6. * When a IPV6 packet is received throught the interface recvmsg, how to get the zone_id or scope_id for the received Ipv6 Addr. When the recvmsg interface is

Re: scope id querry

2002-10-16 Thread Arun Prasad
hello, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote: > On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 16:15:29 +0100, > Arun Prasad [EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Some doubts on the socket api for Ipv6. > * When a IPV6 packet is received throught the interface "recvmsg", how to get the > "zone_id" or "scope_id" for the

Re: [Diffserv] APIs for diffserv

2002-10-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) What work has been done with regards to specifying an API for setting the Traffic Class fields? Anything other than the IPv6 APIs? There was draft-itojun-ipv6-flowlabel-api-01.txt (April 2001). itojun may want to comment. the API for traffic

Re: IPv6 subnet-local addresses anddraft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-10.txt

2002-10-16 Thread Brian Haberman
Keith, Keith Moore wrote: My point is that I believe that a clean separation should be made between global addresses and scoped addresses. We fully understand how globals and link-locals work. All the others are still being hashed out. If we make this break, the address architecture can

RE: Optimistic DAD draft ...

2002-10-16 Thread Bound, Jim
I simply cannot believe it is 1000 ms. Like I said lets get some empircal data. /jim -Original Message- From: Nick 'Sharkey' Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 5:24 PM To: Tony Hain Cc: 'Charles E. Perkins'; 'Pekka Savola'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

RE: Optimistic DAD draft ...

2002-10-16 Thread Bound, Jim
I do understand it exactly and you are 100% correct. Lets do some testing. /jim -Original Message- From: Tony Hain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 5:19 PM To: 'Charles E. Perkins' Cc: 'Pekka Savola'; 'Nick 'Sharkey' Moore'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

RE: Optimistic DAD draft ...

2002-10-16 Thread Bound, Jim
Alper, None of us working on this are even clear layer 3 handover will ever work? Not sure if that matters does it? Are we talking about the future? Thanks /jim -Original Message- From: Alper E. YEGIN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 5:43 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: Changing RS Reply Timing for Mobile IPv6

2002-10-16 Thread James Kempf
Yes, sorry. jak - Original Message - From: Greg Daley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: James Kempf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Brett Pentland [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thomas Narten [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 10:20 PM Subject: Re: Changing RS Reply Timing

RE: Changing RS Reply Timing for Mobile IPv6

2002-10-16 Thread Bound, Jim
James, Thanks. I will ask our folks to do the same and see if we see the same. Will take me some time. /jim -Original Message- From: James Kempf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 10:41 AM To: Bound, Jim; Brett Pentland; Thomas Narten Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

IPv6 node requirements - some comments

2002-10-16 Thread juha . wiljakka
Hi all, it has been quite silent around IPv6 node requirements lately. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt Here are some comments on it to hopefully activate the discussion again: - 1.2: There has been discussion on using the conformance groups.

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on Well known site local unicast addresses for DNS resolver

2002-10-16 Thread Margaret Wasserman
I have several technical and organizational comments regarding this document. The document states: Thus, it is recommended to implement also other mechanisms for overriding this default, for example: manual configuration, L2 mechanisms and/or DHCPv6. I think that it should be required (a

Re: Optimistic DAD draft ...

2002-10-16 Thread Alper E. YEGIN
Jim, None of us working on this are even clear layer 3 handover will ever work? Not sure if that matters does it? Are we talking about the future? You mean Mobile IPv6? It works. alper Thanks /jim -Original Message- From: Alper E. YEGIN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Optimistic DAD draft ...

2002-10-16 Thread Alper E. YEGIN
Hi Jim, Simply because of address spoof DOS we must at least permit DAD. The cost is only at node-on. Now the timers and lifetimes administration for a mobile network could be a problem but that is tunable. I believe we are talking miliseconds. What we need are some tests. I will ask our

Re: Optimistic DAD draft ...

2002-10-16 Thread Charles E. Perkins
Hello Jim, Layer 3 handover definitely can and does work. We have been showing smooth layer-3 handover for voice for almost two years now, even with conference demos and press releases, using Mobile IPv6. Improvements have been done for QoS and several other features which aren't the point of

IPv6 w.g. Last Call on IPv6 Flow Label Specification

2002-10-16 Thread Bob Hinden
This is a IPv6 working group last call for comments on advancing the following document as a Proposed Standard: Title : IPv6 Flow Label Specification Author(s) : J. Rajahalme, A. Conta, B. Carpenter, S. Deering Filename:

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on Well known site local unicast addressesfor DNS resolver

2002-10-16 Thread Pekka Savola
Very good comments; on one point.. On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Margaret Wasserman wrote: d) Having an announcement protocol that the DNS resolver could use to advertize the host route to the nearby router. Details of such a protocols are out of scope of this document, but something similar to [MLD]

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on Well known site local unicast addressesfor DNS resolver

2002-10-16 Thread Pekka Savola
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Margaret Wasserman wrote: Options a) - c) should be sufficient to describe how the routing system will get the information. The three points you mention all indicate that you would run a routing protocol to inject routes into the routing system. Yep. Routing

RE: Optimistic DAD draft ...

2002-10-16 Thread Bound, Jim
Charlie, Test beds are good. But no one is going to use it till we make sure it works across many products. I would not put my shit on the line for anyones implementation of layer 3 such as a soldier or hospital emergency rescue team. Nor for IPv6 at this time. I would like to see specs for

RE: Optimistic DAD draft ...

2002-10-16 Thread Bound, Jim
How can mobile IPv6 in the market without at least PS and LMM is still a discussion which I believe is required and as you know I say use AAAv6 instead of overhead of Ipsec. Now if you mean we can move in the market as vendors without the IETF I agree but that has not happened yet. /jim

Comments on IPv6 Flow Label Last Call

2002-10-16 Thread Bob Hinden
The IPv6 w.g. chairs believe there are some important open issues that they would like to see the working group discuss as part of the working group last call on the IPv6 Flow Label Specification draft-ietf-ipv6-flow-label-03.txt. The current draft allows flow labels to be used in ways that

RE: Implementation worries about default address selection

2002-10-16 Thread Pekka Savola
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Richard Draves wrote: As it happens my implementation does do some caching - the equivalent of a destination cache entry also caches the source address to use for that destination, if the application hasn't specified a source address. Yep, that seems like a sane approach.

Re: IPv6 subnet-local addresses anddraft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-10.txt

2002-10-16 Thread Keith Moore
actually I'd claim that we don't really understand how link-locals work, at least not from the applications viewpoint. but I enthusiastically support the idea of separating the work on globals from the work on scoped addresses. I believe we do have a good understanding on how

Re: IPv6 subnet-local addresses anddraft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-10.txt

2002-10-16 Thread Keith Moore
i believe we have some clues on application consideration to scoped addresses. I don't get the sense that we have consensus on this, because some people seem to think that scoped addresses are appropriate for use by general-purpose apps. for instance, there's really no way that

RE: IPv6 subnet-local addresses anddraft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-10.txt

2002-10-16 Thread Tony Hain
Keith Moore wrote: I don't get the sense that we have consensus on this, because some people seem to think that scoped addresses are appropriate for use by general-purpose apps. for instance, there's really no way that an application can effectively use a scoped address in a referral

Re: IPv6 subnet-local addresses anddraft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-10.txt

2002-10-16 Thread Keith Moore
An implementation note which identifies the need for any multi-party apps to have a scope determination mechanism before using SL is appropriate. no, I'm sorry. It's not. it's insane. look, it's a separation of function argument. the network's job is to do best effort delivery SO THE

Re: Optimistic DAD draft ...

2002-10-16 Thread Nick 'Sharkey' Moore
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:15:50AM -0400, Bound, Jim wrote: [Nick 'Sharkey' Moore wrote:] 1000ms is a long time by anyone's standards! I simply cannot believe it is 1000 ms. Like I said lets get some empircal data. I was referring to the DAD delay, eg: RETRANS_TIMER from RFC 2461. We

Re: Optimistic DAD draft ...

2002-10-16 Thread Nick 'Sharkey' Moore
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:07:55AM -0700, Alper E. YEGIN wrote: As far as I understand, people are not suggesting changing DAD, but instead developing an optimized version of it. Both versions should be able to co-exist, no interference. That's exactly right, Alper. My reason for using

Re: Optimistic DAD draft ...

2002-10-16 Thread Nick 'Sharkey' Moore
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:18:52AM -0400, Bound, Jim wrote: Alper, None of us working on this are even clear layer 3 handover will ever work? Not sure if that matters does it? Are we talking about the future? We're pretty clear on this: we've tested it. The significant delays are: *

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on Well known site local unicast addresses for DNS resolver

2002-10-16 Thread Derek Fawcus
I think this draft is a poor idea, and that if people want an autoconfig mechanism, then something along the lines of draft-beloeil-ipv6-dns-resolver-option-00.txt would be nore sensible. Mind one would still have to configure the router to generate the above option in a RA, but then

RE: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on Well known site local unicast addresses for DNS resolver

2002-10-16 Thread Jonne . Soininen
Hello everybody, after reading all the previous mails about this topic, I totally agree that the proposed DNS discovery is not a perfect solution. However, it is *a* solution that works. I believe it is easy to miss the main point: We currently do not have any mechanisms to configure a IPv6

Re: IPv6 subnet-local addresses anddraft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-10.txt

2002-10-16 Thread itojun
i believe we have some clues on application consideration to scoped addresses. I don't get the sense that we have consensus on this, because some people seem to think that scoped addresses are appropriate for use by general-purpose apps. for instance, there's really no way that

Re: IPv6 subnet-local addressesanddraft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-10.txt

2002-10-16 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:00:18 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I don't get the sense that we have consensus on this, because some people seem to think that scoped addresses are appropriate for use by general-purpose apps. for instance, there's really no way that an application can