[netext] Flow Mobility Draft

[Behcet Sarikaya <[e-mail]>]

Hi all,

I have been commenting on draft-ietf-netext-pmipv6-flowmob for years.
At some point the chairs set up the issue tracker and asked us to use
it. I did put many comments on the issue tracker.

In the meantime I have been involved in HA based flow binding entitled
Flow Bindings Initiated by Home Agents for Mobile IPv6
work was published as RFC 7109.

I have noticed that the editor has consistently ignored all these efforts.

Now that we came to a point of final decision, I decided to put all my
comments in writing. I made an xml file from Rev. 10
(BTW we had asked the editor to submit xml file for the draft but he
did not listen as usual) and produced a complete revision which I
called Rev. 11 and sent it in an email to the chairs.

Here are the main points in this draft:
This version is 5+ pages shorter than Rev. 10.
This version removes the use cases section and replaces it with an
overview of flow mobility actions describing the flow mobility
protocol explicitly.
This version removes FMI/FMA section.
This version adds Local Mobility Anchor Considerations, Mobile Access
Gateway considerations
and much needed IPv4 flow mobility support sections.
This section uses UPN/UPA messages to carry Flow Identification
Mobility option and Flow Binding Action Sub-Option
   and Target Care-of Address Sub-Option defined in RFC7109.

I propose this version to be used for further work and let Carlos
further maintain the document in just a few steps that are left.

Regards,

Behcet