Re: [babel] I-D Action: draft-ietf-babel-v4viav6-00.txt

Hi,

Writing as a co-Chair, I think we should determine the WG decision on
how to handle the IP source address for IPv4 ICMP generated by a Babel
router that has no interface with an IPv4 address. Juliusz presented
on this topic to our meeting at the March IETF meeting. See
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/110/materials/slides-110-babel-babel-source-specific-and-v4-via-v6-02
specifically slides 5 through the end.

I think slides 10 and 11 cover the practical choices. Any feedback or
opinions welcome.

There is one other question in my mind. Does this draft really need to
be Experimental? I would be inclined to target it to Proposed
Standard.
(At least in theory an Experimental RFC should say what the experiment
is and how the results will be determined, although there certainly
are Experimental RFCs that fail to do this.)

Thanks,
Donald
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 3:34 PM Théophile Bastian
<theophile.bastian@ens.fr> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> > This draft is a work item of the Babel routing protocol WG of the IETF.
> >
> >          Title           : IPv4 routes with an IPv6 next-hop in the Babel routing protocol
> >          Authors         : Theophile Bastian
> >                            Juliusz Chroboczek
> >       Filename        : draft-ietf-babel-v4viav6-00.txt
> >       Pages           : 8
> >       Date            : 2020-10-20
>
> With much delay (sorry about this, I got caught in too many things at
> once), I uploaded `draft-ietf-babel-v4viav6-00` as discussed in IETF108,
> which replaces `draft-bastian-babel-v4ov6-NN`.
>
> In this submission, I only updated the submission name, slightly changed
> the title and the date. I will shortly begin to work on an updated
> version, which will
>
> — use "v4-via-v6" instead of "v4-over-v6" (thanks Barbara for the name,
> it is definitely better);
> — address the ICMPv4 issue (if a machine has no IPv4 address at all on
> any interface, it is unable to send ICMPv4 packet).
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Théophile Bastian
>
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