Re: IPv6 Final Destination Option

2005-08-04 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] (at Thu, 4 Aug 2005 10:39:00 +0530), Srinivas Goud [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: I do agree with your points, but if you loot at rfc3775, it says that The use of IPsec Authentication Header (AH) for the Home Address option is not required, except that if the IPv6

Re: potpourri

2005-08-04 Thread Fred Baker
more to the point, the WG should change documents if they need to be changed, not if they feel someone else will worry that they need to be changed. The WG should send the *right* docs to the IESG, and presumably this is the set that it now has. On Aug 3, 2005, at 3:00 PM, [EMAIL

Re: IPv6 Service Discovery

2005-08-04 Thread James Kempf
Check RFC 3111. Unfortunately, SLP hasn't been very widely used, though there are a few very specific cases where it has been (iSCSI discovery, SIP proxy discovery, among others). I would not be in favor of extending the RA for this purpose in any case. LW DHCP is a better choice and has

RE: IPv6 Service Discovery

2005-08-04 Thread john . loughney
Abhijit, What sort of Application Service are you talking about? I know folks look at using DHCP for configuring this kind of information, if I understand you correctly. John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ext Abhijit Chaudhary

Re: IPv6 Service Discovery

2005-08-04 Thread Perry Lorier
Abhijit Chaudhary (abchaudh) wrote: Hi, I have question regarding IPv6 auto service discovery. Suppose a IPv6 Mobile Host comes and joins a network. Using Stateful or Stateless Address Configuration mentioned in ICMPv6 Router Advertisement message it gets a IPv6 address. But if the

RE: IPv6 Service Discovery

2005-08-04 Thread Abhijit Chaudhary \(abchaudh\)
Hi John, I think DHCP server is used to find TFTP server, time server, Gateway, and maybe DNS too. I don't think it can be used to find Printers or other video application or VoIP server etc. Maybe a DHCP expert can comment more on it. Generally DHCP server exist in the Service provider network,

Re: potpourri

2005-08-04 Thread David Conrad
Tony, I know I'm going to regret this since your post was so obviously flamebait preaching to the choir, but as the saying goes, you bring the flamethrower and I'll bring the marshmallows. On Aug 3, 2005, at 5:28 AM, Tony Hain wrote: The IETF has to take the position of broad vision here

RE: IPv6 Service Discovery

2005-08-04 Thread Mohacsi Janos
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Abhijit Chaudhary (abchaudh) wrote: Hi John, I think DHCP server is used to find TFTP server, time server, Gateway, and maybe DNS too. I don't think it can be used to find Printers or other video application or VoIP server etc. I don't see any problem to configure these

Protocol Action: 'A Method for Generating Link Scoped IPv6 Multicast Addresses' to Proposed Standard

2005-08-04 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'A Method for Generating Link Scoped IPv6 Multicast Addresses ' draft-ietf-ipv6-link-scoped-mcast-09.txt as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the IP Version 6 Working Group Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Margaret

Re: IPv6 Final Destination Option

2005-08-04 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: I do agree with your points, but if you loot at rfc3775, ... = the question is a bit different: is it silly to define a mutable option which can only be in the final destination option header so cannot be mute en route? This is true but you can't infer

Re: IPv6 Service Discovery

2005-08-04 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 4-aug-2005, at 9:22, Perry Lorier wrote: I would have thought it would use DNS Service Discovery/Multicast DNS. http://www.multicastdns.org/ http://www.dns-sd.org/ While these protocols are mostly used under IPv4, I forsee[1] no reason why they shouldn't work in a mixed v6/v6 only

RE: potpourri

2005-08-04 Thread Tony Hain
David Conrad wrote: Tony, I know I'm going to regret this since your post was so obviously flamebait preaching to the choir, but as the saying goes, you bring the flamethrower and I'll bring the marshmallows. On Aug 3, 2005, at 5:28 AM, Tony Hain wrote: The IETF has to take the position