Re: [Iotops] Automatically connecting to stub networks...

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

(trying to clean out my inbox)

Ted Lemon <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > I mentioned prior to IETF 107 that I wanted to start a conversation
    > about this problem, but didn’t have time to write a draft.  I’ve
    > written one, which I think describes my view of the problem pretty
    > well; I’d like to know if what I’ve written here makes sense to others.

Ted, I think that your work addresses a problem space that is in some ways
similar to the "share64" concept.   Not the same, but similar.

I think that the use of ULA which is advertise to the "LAN" for reachability
does not have to be mutually exclusive with NAT64 for "cloud" reachability.

Since your document does not actually require any new protocol, but just
explains how to do something new using existing mechanism, I think that it
would fit into the current IOTOPS charter.

In answer to your question:
   State of the Art

   Currently there is one known way to accomplish what we are describing
   here [[Michael, does ANIMA have a second way?]]. 

The ANIMA ACP sets up an overlay network with /128 routing via RPL(RFC6550)
storing mode.

    > https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-lemon-stub-networks-ps-00.txt
    
    > Abstract: IETF currently provides protocols for automatically
    > connecting single hosts to existing network infrastructure.  This
    > document describes a related problem: the problem of connecting a stub
    > network (a collection of hosts behind a router) automatically to
    > existing network infrastructure in the same manner.

Your criticism if HNCP is all true, but an important part is that it really
only provides for allocation of prefixes; not routing.
(I still think that the WG made a mistake not extending OSPFv3)
HNCP is not the part that's missing: it's the routing protocol in the home
that is what's needed to do something more complicated.

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