Re: [MEXT] Subject: Multiple CoA draft 10 -- two proposals and some comments

Hi Christian,

Christian.Kaas-Petersen@tieto.com wrote:
> Assume a mobile node with home address HoA has two interfaces,
> both attached to foreign links.  After exchange of binding update
> and binding acknowledgement, the home agent's binding cache (at
> least the snip of it related to HoA) will look like this
>
>     HoA, BID= 7, CoA1, other parameters like period of validity...
>     HoA, BID=10, CoA2, other parameters ...
>
> The draft uses HoA=2001:db8::EUI.
>
> Draft 10, section 5.1 states, that a BID value must be unique for a
> home address and care-of address pair.  This is satisfied above, but
> it means, that the mobile station is not allowed to change the
> second entry such that it also uses CoA1 as care-of address.
>
> Proposal:  I think it has merit to be able to allow more than
> one BID value per pair of home address and care-of address.  Consider
> flow bindings (defined in draft-ietf-mext-flow-binding) where
> a flow may refer to a BID, and thus there is a simple way to move
> flows between interfaces: only updating the binding cache.
>   
I agree with Gerardo. When reading the draft I did not catch this one 
but I agree that the behaviour should be as you have described it above.

Regards
Conny

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