Re: [Mipshop] Section 4.3.1 of draft-ietf-mipshop-transient-bce-pmipv6

[Marco Liebsch <[e-mail]>]

Hi Vijay,

Vijay Devarapalli wrote:
> Hi Jari, Marco,
>
> Section 4.3.1 talks about the new MAG figuring out if the MN supports 
> transient BCE functionality. This text was added in the previous 
> version after discussions between you and Marco.
>
> There is no text currently in the draft that exactly describes what is 
> it that the MN needs to support. AFAIK, transient BCE can work without 
> any explicit support on the mobile node.
>
> My understanding is that in a single radio handover, the MN does not 
> need to support anything in addition to what is required in RFC 5213. 
> For a dual radio handover, there is an additional benefit if the MN is 
> able to receive packets both on the old and the new interface for a 
> short while.
>
> Or am I missing something?
No, actually you describe this well and according to the description in 
the draft about the MN's operation.
For dual radio, the MN benefits also if it is able to use the previous 
interface while setting up the
new one.

marco

>
> Vijay