Re: BIER in IPv6

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 5:46 PM Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> wrote:

> 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 ?
>

   I think that would be a great idea!!

>
> 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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> >
> >
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