Re: [babel] Summary of the top-secret unicast Hellos meeting

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> Thu, 20 July 2017 13:27 UTC

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Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> TL;DR version: we keep unicast Hellos but make them optional.  We write
> this up in the rfc6126bis draft, and see how well it reads.  We then
> request feedback on the list.

I have updated my unicast hello implementation to comply with what is
currently in rfc6126bis (I think). Code (still untested) here:
https://github.com/tohojo/bird/tree/babel-unicast

-Toke