Re: BIER in IPv6

Maybe it would also help to give a presentation about BIER with IPv6 to 6man,
if/when 6man meets virtually ? Probably easier for non-BIER-aware 6man
folks to catch up ?

Didn't track if/when 6man virtually meets.

Cheers
    Toerless

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 04:46:10PM -0300, Fernando Gont wrote:
> Hello, Michael,
> 
> On 18/3/20 01:19, Michael McBride wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > The bier wg could use your ipv6 recommendations. We?ve worked on various
> > solutions to transport a bier header in ipv6. We decided to pause and
> > create a requirements document (draft-ietf-bier-ipv6-requirements) to
> > help steer us towards the right solution(s). In that drafts appendix we
> > have a fairly good summary of the various solutions.
> > 
> > We?ve started to rally behind two solutions which meet the majority of
> > the requirements: draft-xie-bier-ipv6-encapsulation (bier header in ipv6
> > EH) and draft-zhang-bier-bierin6 (bier header as payload using ipv6 NH).
> > The bier chairs today asked to punt the bierv6 topic to 6man for advice
> > before adopting any of these solutions.
> > 
> > So here we are seeking your advice. The most simple approach would
> > probably be to give
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bier-ipv6-requirements/ a
> > look and scroll down to the appendix to see a summary of the various
> > solutions we?ve been considering.
> 
> Thanks a lot for the note! I'll read the documents and come back with
> comments/questions in the next few days.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Fernando Gont
> SI6 Networks
> e-mail: fgont@si6networks.com
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