Re: ipv6nd-02.txt & autoconfig

[Masataka Ohta <[e-mail]>]

Gja;

> Such an elegant argument for flattening the NSAPA addressing space
> is unexpected. By not allowing the SEL to be used during
> call SETUP at the ATM level, you're mandating that different logical
> entities layered over a physical ATM NIC _must_ use different ESIs.

What?

By mandating different logical entities (applications?) use
different SEL bytes, we can have only 256 different logical
entities per a host.

But 256 is not large enough.

Different logical entities layered over a physical ATM NIC should
be allowed to use the same ESI and different VPI/VCIs.

And then, for obvious merits of simplicity, there is no reason not
to mandate that different applications over a physical ATM NIC
_must_ use the same ESI.

> That sounds like flattening a perfectly good hierachy.

If you think OSI hierarchy is perfectly good, use it with native
ATM. Rest of us who use IP will flatten unnecessarily hierarchies.

						Masataka Ohta