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Re: [Roll] [roll] #89: Spec is limited to single interface intermediate routers

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Fri, 13 April 2012 14:06 UTC

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>>>>> "Mukul" == Mukul Goyal <mukul@uwm.edu> writes:
    Mukul> I propose the following text to be placed inside the
    Mukul> Applicability section:

    Mukul> "The participation in a P2P-RPL route discovery is currently
    Mukul> limited to the routers with IPv6 addresses that are reachable
    Mukul> in both incoming and outgoing directions, which it quite
    Mukul> typical in usual LLN routers with a single radio"

I'm happy with this.

It likely covers the many cases where the P2P route crosses into a
backbone and then across ethernet.  There many some corner cases where
such a network is not functional, but the only way I can get to those
corner cases is due to bad implementation decisions.

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