Re: Question for IPv6 w.g. on [Re: IPv6 Type 0 Routing Header issues]

2007-04-27 Thread Tim Hartrick
is disabled: 1) ICMPv6 destination unreachable/admininistratively prohibited. 2) Other ICMPv6 destination unreachable. 3) Silent discard. I vote for 3 but I could be convinced about 1 or 2. It appears that IPv4 is supposed to do the equivalent of 1. Tim Hartrick

RE: Proposed MO bits text for RFC2461bis

2006-04-20 Thread Tim Hartrick
description. Please correct me if I am wrong about this. I'll agree with this. But should we take this to the next logical step, i.e. just define one bit? I disagree with this. If it will prevent such talk we should add a reference to DHCPv6-lite. Can we ship this spec. Please. Tim

Re: Proposed MO bits text for RFC2461bis

2006-04-18 Thread Tim Hartrick
the hosts on a network to implement something or if they have implemented it, enable something. They can't. Jeeze, what a sorry state of affairs. Tim Hartrick IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative

RE: 2461bis update

2005-06-01 Thread Tim Hartrick
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 11:29, Soliman, Hesham wrote: It would be better than what's there now, but ideally, the text should just be removed entirely. Doing address resolution on multiple links can lead to ambiguous results. There could be multiple destinations responding to

Re: IPv6 WG Last Call:draft-ietf-ipv6-ra-mo-flags-01.txt

2005-05-23 Thread Tim Hartrick
Bob, On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 09:48, Bob Hinden wrote: Part of me is starting to think that we might be better off waiting for there to be more operational experience with deployments of DHCPv6 to see how much confusion there really is. I agree it is good for vendors to implement similar

Re: IPv6 WG Last Call:draft-ietf-ipv6-ra-mo-flags-01.txt

2005-05-23 Thread Tim Hartrick
Jinmei, On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 14:23, JINMEI Tatuya / wrote: More than part of me is thinking this. It seems to me that there is a continuing confusion about how these bits interact with local decisions by the administrator of a specific machine or network. People are asking

RE: IPv6 Address Architecture update question

2005-02-02 Thread Tim Hartrick
until the bugs become features. The answer is to fix the the implementations. Tim Hartrick IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: IPv6 WG Last Call:draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis-01.txt

2005-01-14 Thread Tim Hartrick
of unimplemented or not widely implemented implementation options is overkill. Tim Hartrick Mentat Inc. IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

RE: the protocols for the M/O flags (Re: [rfc2462bis] whether we need the M/O flags)

2004-04-28 Thread Tim Hartrick
is wrong and should be corrected. Tim Hartrick Mentat Inc. IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: [rfc2462bis] whether we need the M/O flags

2004-04-15 Thread Tim Hartrick
not clear, not to open every feature for the full-scale debate and revision. There is running, shipping code that makes use of these bits. What, exactly, is the upside in breaking that code? Tim Hartrick Mentat Inc. IETF IPv6 working

Re: Issue 13: Omission of prefix options - resolution

2003-11-05 Thread Tim Hartrick
Greg, Backward compatability shouldn't really be a problem. Hosts which are doing RFC2461 Router Discovery will understand RAs with options or bits in them indicating solicitation or completeness, but just not be able to access the improved function. If a host that understands the new

Re: Issue 13: Omission of prefix options - resolution

2003-11-04 Thread Tim Hartrick
well. Is there some reason why we wouldn't want to add a new bit, say the Complete bit, to the reserved field of the router advertisement? I realize I just finished ranting against adding new bits but using one of the reserved bits for this purpose seems cleaner to me. Tim Hartrick Mentat Inc

Re: MTU handling and 2461bis

2003-10-29 Thread Tim Hartrick
features our grand children will be working on it. Just my $.02 Tim Hartrick Mentat Inc. IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6