Re: Last Call: <draft-gont-intarea-obsolete-eid-option-01.txt> (Obsoleting the Endpoint Identifier (EID) Option) to Proposed Standard

[Fernando Gont <[e-mail]>]

On 10/05/2012 03:58 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>     > Have the original authors [sic - JNC] been contacted? 
> 
> Alas, the author of the ID which defines this option, Charlie Lynn, is no
> longer with us:
> 
>   http://www.postel.org/pipermail/end2end-interest/2004-June/004195.html
> 
> I can probably give as good a judgement on it as anyone, though.

FWIW, being unaware of this, I tried to contact Charles Lynn a couple of
years ago when I was going through each of the then-currently-specified
IPv6 options. I seem to recall checking with Noel regarding whether EID
had ever been deployed (but my memory may certainly fail).


> Looking at the ID defining the option:
> 
>   http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/nimrod/eidoption.txt
> 
> (dunno why the obsoletion ID doesn't give a URL for it),

Yep, it should. -- for some reason the I-D is referencing only
<http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/nimrod/> but not the specific I-D that
specified the option. -- I will add a specific reference in the next rev
of the I-D - thanks!



> the obsoletion ID is
> slightly inaccurate: it wasn't just "meant to be used with the Nimrod routing
> architecture", but rather the endpoint name format supported by that option
> is totally general, allowing any endpoint name format to be used.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions on how to tweak the text
to improve this.

Thanks!

Best regards,
-- 
Fernando Gont
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