routers - (was: Re: ROUTERS vs. routers)

2003-11-26 Thread Fred Templin
As I said in my last message, my goal was to get a message out and not push new terminology. I agree with Pekka that it doesn't matter at all whether a router has just one interface or hundreds; it is still a router. (In fact, this is nearly the exact response I received when I asked a related

Re: routers - (was: Re: ROUTERS vs. routers)

2003-11-26 Thread Fred Templin
Pekka, I meant only what I said - nodes should be able to selectively solicit at least two different classes of information from routers. (Perhaps there will be even more classes of information in the future; I don't know). Some routers might advertise only prefix/autoconfig information, so they

Re: ICMPv6 ND option for more specific routes [Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-router-selection-02.txt issues list]

2003-11-26 Thread Pekka Savola
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Brian Haberman wrote: There are two ways we could do this. One would be for the doc authors to request a value from IANA. The other would be to push draft-narten-iana-experimental-allocations-05.txt through the process and utilize it for early

Nicholas Carbone/Poughkeepsie/IBM is out of the office.

2003-11-26 Thread Nicholas Carbone
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Re: routers - (was: Re: ROUTERS vs. routers)

2003-11-26 Thread Fred Templin
Fred Templin wrote: The two ways I see to do this are to either specify a new IPv6 ND option (call it a Type II Router Solicitation for lack of a better name) or to add bits to the existing IPv6 Router Soliciation message (e.g., in the Reserved field) that indicate the type of information

Re: routers - (was: Re: ROUTERS vs. routers)

2003-11-26 Thread Fred Templin
Responding one final time to my own post, I think we should forget this business about hijacking and just use Matt's document instead: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-name-lookups-10.txt It looks mature, well fleshed out, and has some nice features like references to

Re: routers - (was: Re: ROUTERS vs. routers)

2003-11-26 Thread Matt Crawford
On Nov 26, 2003, at 4:50 PM, Fred Templin wrote: 139 ICMP Node Information Query [Crawford] 140 ICMP Node Information Response [Crawford] I see that the Router Renumbering option is used by RFC 2894, but does anyone know if the other options are used