Re: Consensus call on adopting <draft-krishnan-6man-rs-mark-08.txt>

Philip Homburg <pch-6man@u-1.phicoh.com> Fri, 22 October 2010 14:24 UTC

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In your letter dated Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:08:15 -0400 you wrote:
>On 10-10-22 10:06 AM, Philip Homburg wrote:
>> Maybe this draft should say something about what happens if the 3 router 
>> solicitations sent by the host are lost.
>
>Certainly. We have added Section 5.3 to version -08 of the draft to 
>account for the case where the host-initiated RSs are lost.

Sorry, I missed that. That sounds good.

But now I'm a bit confused. Given that the AN now has to ability to originate
RS messages, why is it forwarding the end-device' RS at all? Is that only to
support SEND?