Re: New draft - draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata-00

Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Wed, 24 July 2013 17:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: New draft - draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata-00
From: Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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On 22 Jul 2013, at 10:01, Shwetha Bhandari (shwethab) <shwethab@cisco.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> A new draft draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata-00  describing 
> a method for applications to learn and influence source address selection by associating
> IPv6 prefixes with meta-data when configured by
> the network is submitted. Motivation to do this and details of a prototype that has been developed are included. Related drafts that define DHCPv6 and ND options to realize
>  conveying of meta-data associated with a prefix are draft-bhandari-dhc-class-based-prefix
> and 
> draft-korhonen-6man-prefix-properties.
> Motivation for doing this work is relevant to homenet hence adding homenet wg.

Hi Swetha,

You may want to have a look at draft-anipko-mif-mpvd-arch-00, if you ahven't already, which is work from a design team in the mif WG. Section 4.2.2 is very relevant.  The "metadata" could also be provisioning domain information, perhaps.

Tim

> 
> On 7/15/13 8:52 PM, "internet-drafts@ietf.org" <internet-drafts@ietf.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> A new version of I-D, draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata-00.txt
>> has been successfully submitted by Maico Le Pape and posted to the
>> IETF repository.
>> 
>> Filename:     draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata
>> Revision:     00
>> Title:         IPv6 Prefix Meta-data and Usage
>> Creation date:     2013-07-15
>> Group:         Individual Submission
>> Number of pages: 16
>> URL:             http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata-00.txt
>> Status:          http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata
>> Htmlized:        http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata-00
>> 
>> 
>> Abstract:
>>    This document presents a method for applications to influence the
>>    IPv6 source selection algorithm used by the IP stack in a host.  To
>>    do so, IPv6 prefixes are associated with meta-data when configured by
>>    the network.  This meta-data allows the network to describe the
>>    purpose and properties of the prefix enabling applications to make
>>    intelligent decision when selecting a prefix.
>> 
>> 
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