Re: [Autoconf] new charter

Alexandru Petrescu <alexandru.petrescu@gmail.com> Mon, 02 March 2009 16:04 UTC

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Dearlove, Christopher (UK) a écrit :
> Alexander Petrescu
>> But I would disagree with a Charter saying we deal with all 
>> wireless links ranging from personal area to sattellite and 
>> everything in between and the generic addressing model is the 
>> following...
> 
> Why?
> 
> I think the onus is on you to provide a good technical reason why 
> this wouldn't work. (I stress technical, as motivationally, Stan 
> Ratliff and others have the motivation, so there is a good reason to 
> do it if we can.)

Not sure which argumentation is expected from me.

In general, wireless links differ largely in the way they form their
IPv6 link-local addresses, depending on whether they're ptp or shared.

An IPv6 addressing scheme designed for WiFi wouldn't work for WMAN
802.16 for example.

Also, some wireless links use some address autoconf mechanisms which
aren't provided by others (e.g. IPv6-over-802154 has a fancy means to
assign an IPv6 address with RR/RC (Router Reg/Router Conf'n)).

Alex