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Re: some feedback on feedback on draft-bonica-6man-ext-hdr-update-03

Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar> Mon, 25 May 2020 07:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: some feedback on feedback on draft-bonica-6man-ext-hdr-update-03
To: "Xiejingrong (Jingrong)" <xiejingrong@huawei.com>, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>, 6MAN <6man@ietf.org>
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From: Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar>
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On 25/5/20 01:56, Xiejingrong (Jingrong) wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> Maybe the more you assume "Destination node" as "final/ultimate destination node", the more you will be confusing.
> To me, "Destination node" is very simple to mean "the node (or each of the set of nodes, in the case of multicast) identified in the Destination Address field".
> 
> Just think of the "destination node" as a node who is "listening" to an address, either a unicast address, or a multicast address.
> If a packet with the destination address being an address the "destination node" listening to, the "destination node" will <catch> it, and processing it either way, for example:
> (1) it could just simply forward it according to further (not very deep) information in any EH.
> (2) it could further dispatch it to the APP according to some (fairly deep) information.

(2) is actually never the case.

Thanks,
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