Re: [homenet] I-D Action: draft-haddad-homenet-gateway-visibility-00.txt

[james woodyatt <[e-mail]>]

On Oct 28, 2011, at 5:55 AM, Mark Townsley wrote:
> On Oct 26, 2011, at 6:42 PM, David R Oran wrote:
>> On Oct 26, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Wassim Haddad wrote:
>>> 
>>> This memo describes a mechanism designed to increase the home gateway visibility on the home network that it is serving.  This includes knowledge of all IPv6 addresses configured using prefixes assigned by
>>> the home gateway and advertised by router(s) attached to it.
>> 
>> The draft says "In such scenario, it can be useful for the HGW(s)
>>  to keep track of all IPv6 addresses configured by different types of
>>  end devices that get attached to the home network via router(s)
>>  connected to the HGW(s)."
>> 
>> but give zero justification for WHY it might be useful. I can't think of any reason at all, but I assume you can but just thought it too obvious to write down.
>> 
>> Could you educate me?
> 
> Ray and I would like to know as well, in particular we're trying to see where this fits into the homenet architecture (considering the 5 areas we are chartered to target as well). If nothing else, we need to know this in order to fit it into the Taipei homenet agenda assuming you want some time to discuss it there.

Looks to me like somebody really wants the functionality of I-D.woodyatt-ald, only just for IP addresses and not for protocol and port numbers as well.  If you gonna hoover up everything, why not go big?


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james woodyatt <[e-mail]>
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