Re: [netext] I-D Action: draft-ietf-netext-pd-pmip-09.txt

Le 21/06/2013 10:39, Jouni Korhonen a écrit :
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> On Jun 20, 2013, at 4:45 PM, Alexandru Petrescu <alexandru.petrescu@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> The functionality offered to the Mobile Router, as described in this
>> draft, is similar if not the same as what the 64share draft does
>> draft-ietf-v6ops-64share-07 behaviour called 'IPv6 tethering' and
>> witnessed on smartphones on cellular operators.
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> Obviously we are and were aware of this all the time..

That is good.  But also obviously if one is done the other is not needed.

>> A deployer of Mobile Routers faces thus two alternatives: should use
>> 64share exclusively on the smartphone?  Or should deploy PMIP-PD in the
>> infrastructure?  It's pointless to do both.
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> You are missing one thing here. What NETEXT is doing is specific to
> PMIPv6 and fixes/clarifies a specific issue related to prefix delegation.

I thought both were specific to IPv6.

>> Remark also that 64share v6ops discussion seems to have an oppinion with
>> respect to DHCPv6-PD (it is the right thing to do), yet no oppinion
>> about PMIP-PD.
>>
>> Given these aspects, I am surprised there is no reference from one draft
>> to the other.
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> Because there is no need. The v6ops work is independent of what NETEXT is
> doing and what NETEXT is doing cannot prohibit an operator deploying what
> v6ops is defining..

I am not going then to ask why NETEXT is doing what is doing, neither v6ops.

But it is surprising these two alternatives realize the same 
functionality.  Whether you want to agree to this or not is another 
matter :-)

Alex

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> - Jouni
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>>
>> Alex
>>
>> Le 18/06/2013 18:54, internet-drafts@ietf.org a écrit :
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>>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
>>> directories. This draft is a work item of the Network-Based Mobility
>>> Extensions Working Group of the IETF.
>>>
>>> Title           : Prefix Delegation Support for Proxy Mobile IPv6
>>> Author(s)       : Xingyue Zhou Jouni Korhonen Carl Williams Sri
>>> Gundavelli Carlos J. Bernardos Filename        :
>>> draft-ietf-netext-pd-pmip-09.txt Pages           : 27 Date
>>> : 2013-06-18
>>>
>>> Abstract: This specification defines extensions to Proxy Mobile IPv6
>>> protocol for allowing a mobile router in a Proxy Mobile IPv6 domain
>>> to obtain delegated IP prefixes for its attached mobile networks.
>>> The mobility entities in the network will provide network-based
>>> mobility management support for those delegated IP prefixes just as
>>> how IP mobility support is provided for the mobile node's home
>>> address. Even as the mobile router performs a handoff and changes its
>>> network point of attachment, mobility support is ensured for all the
>>> delegated IP prefixes and for all the IP nodes in the mobile network
>>> that use IP address configuration from those delegated IP prefixes.
>>>
>>>
>>> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-netext-pd-pmip
>>>
>>> There's also a htmlized version available at:
>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netext-pd-pmip-09
>>>
>>> A diff from the previous version is available at:
>>> http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-netext-pd-pmip-09
>>>
>>>
>>> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
>>> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
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