RE: [Mip4] FMIPv4

<rajeev.koodli@nokia.com> Tue, 23 January 2007 20:05 UTC

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Subject: RE: [Mip4] FMIPv4
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Hi Alex,

thank you for your review.
 
>BAsically I'm fine with it, here's a few minor editorial.
>
>> Optimizations have been proposed and are being standardized in IEEE 
>> however.
>
>... for example IEEE 802.11r (Fast Roaming, Fast BSS 
>Transition) and to a certain extent 802.21; probably worth mentioning.
>

Ok.


>> The design of the protocol is the same as for Mobile IPv6 [2]. 
>> Readers should consult [2] for details, and here we provide 
>a summary.
>[...]
>> [2] R. Koodli (Editor).  Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6 (work in 
>> progress).  Internet Draft, Internet Engineering Task Force.
>> draft-ietf-mipshop-fast-mipv6-03.txt, October 2005.
>
>Editing nit.  The draft referred as [2] no longer exists I 
>believe.  I think there may be plans in the mipshop WG to take 
>RFC4068 on a Stds Track.  So maybe RFC4068 and RFC3775 should 
>be referred for the moment, or any other update more up to 
>date.  This '[2]' is cited several times in the draft.
>

That should be RFC 4068. Thanks for catching it!


>> 5.3. Router Solicitation for Proxy Advertisement (RtSolPr)
>
>Is this an RS carried as ICMP (RFC1256) or as ICMPv6.  
>Encoding is different.  Remark that existing implementations 
>of ICMPv4 RS could be re-used for minimal modifications, or 
>otherwise ICMPv6 could be re-used. 
>  It's a choice.  But in a FMIPv4 deployment one wouldn't 
>assume availability of ICMPv6... or maybe yes (?).  Also it's 
>strange to use Checksum field as computed from rfc1256 but the 
>format from ICMPv6.
>
>Same for Proxy Router Advertisement.
>

It _should_ be ICMPv4, with the allowance for ICMPv6 I guess. 
Will revise.

Regards,

-Rajeev



>Alex
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