Re: [Roll] security for multi-link subnets

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Tue, 12 March 2013 19:46 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Roll] security for multi-link subnets
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>>>>> "Ulrich" == Ulrich Herberg <ulrich@herberg.name> writes:
    Ulrich> I think it is also worth mentioning RFC4903, in particular:

    Ulrich> "A multi-link subnet model should be avoided.  IETF working groups
    Ulrich> using, or considering using, multi-link subnets today should
    Ulrich> investigate moving to one of the other models."

    Ulrich> Have the issues mentioned in RFC4903 been sufficiently addressed?

I think that if we were going supposed to avoid a multi-link subnet,
that would have been objected to already.  
I think that 4903 concerns applied to all of 6lowpan and ROLL work, and
I think that actually we did deal with all of these.

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Michael Richardson
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