Re: Consensus call on adopting draft-krishnan-6man-rs-mark-08.txt

2010-10-22 Thread Randy Bush
I think the title should be changed to something like Line Identification Destination Option as it is proposing to create a new destination option and uses tunneling. In other words, it is no longer adding line identification to RS messages. makes sense. but should not be a prereq for wg

Re: Consensus call on adopting draft-krishnan-6man-rs-mark-08.txt

2010-10-22 Thread Philip Homburg
Maybe this draft should say something about what happens if the 3 router solicitations sent by the host are lost. IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests:

Re: Consensus call on adopting draft-krishnan-6man-rs-mark-08.txt

2010-10-22 Thread Suresh Krishnan
Hi Philip, On 10-10-22 10:06 AM, Philip Homburg wrote: Maybe this draft should say something about what happens if the 3 router solicitations sent by the host are lost. Certainly. We have added Section 5.3 to version -08 of the draft to account for the case where the host-initiated RSs are

Re: Consensus call on adopting draft-krishnan-6man-rs-mark-08.txt

2010-10-22 Thread Suresh Krishnan
Hi Philip, On 10-10-22 10:25 AM, Philip Homburg wrote: In your letter dated Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:08:15 -0400 you wrote: On 10-10-22 10:06 AM, Philip Homburg wrote: Maybe this draft should say something about what happens if the 3 router solicitations sent by the host are lost. Certainly. We

Re: Consensus call on adopting draft-krishnan-6man-rs-mark-08.txt

2010-10-22 Thread Philip Homburg
In your letter dated Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:45:57 -0400 you wrote: But now I'm a bit confused. Given that the AN now has to ability to originat e RS messages, why is it forwarding the end-device' RS at all? Is that only to support SEND? Exactly. The ability to send host-initiated RSs through is

Re: Consensus call on adopting draft-krishnan-6man-rs-mark-08.txt

2010-10-22 Thread Bob Hinden
Correction: The consensus call will end on October 28, 2010. Bob On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Bob Hinden bob.hin...@gmail.com wrote: 6MAN WG, This is a consensus call on adopting:    Title     : Line identification in IPv6 Router Solicitation                messages    Author(s) :

Re: Consensus call on adopting draft-krishnan-6man-rs-mark-08.txt

2010-10-22 Thread Suresh Krishnan
Hi Philip, On 10-10-22 11:01 AM, Philip Homburg wrote: In your letter dated Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:45:57 -0400 you wrote: But now I'm a bit confused. Given that the AN now has to ability to originat e RS messages, why is it forwarding the end-device' RS at all? Is that only to support SEND?

Re: Consensus call on adopting draft-krishnan-6man-rs-mark-08.txt

2010-10-22 Thread Ed Jankiewicz
Yes. There is certainly sufficient interest in the WG on this topic. On 10/21/2010 2:46 PM, Bob Hinden wrote: 6MAN WG, This is a consensus call on adopting: Title : Line identification in IPv6 Router Solicitation messages Author(s) : S. Krishnan, et al.

Re: I-D Action:draft-krishnan-6man-header-reserved-bits-00.txt

2010-10-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, This document updates Section 3 of [RFC2460] to reduce the length of the flow label field from 20 bits to 16 bits, and in the process creating a 4 bit reserved field. OK, that's clear enough... 1. I do think that the justification in the draft for such a major change, after 12

I-D Action:draft-ietf-6man-rpl-option-01.txt

2010-10-22 Thread Internet-Drafts
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group of the IETF. Title : RPL Option for Carrying RPL Information in Data-Plane Datagrams Author(s) : J. Hui, J. Vasseur

Question on IPV6 RFC 2460 Section 4.2

2010-10-22 Thread Mahesh Govindappa
Hi, I am not sure whether its correct to ask this question here, I am facing difficulty understanding RFC 2460 Section 4.2 and also Appendix B. To be particular below are my doubts: 1. Xn+y meaning the Option Type must appear at an integer multiple of x octects from the start of