Re: [rrg] Last call for revised ILNP documents

[Tony Li <[e-mail]>]

Stephane,

Thank you very much for your comments.

Tony


On Jan 22, 2012, at 12:03 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 10:18:03AM -0800,
> Tony Li <[e-mail]> wrote 
> a message of 27 lines which said:
> 
>> Given the extent of the changes, it's appropriate that the RG review
>> and comment, with a full two week review cycle and consensus check.
> 
> I've read the documents (except the IPv4-specific ones) and I believe
> they are mostly complete and clearly explain how ILNP works.
> 
> There is just one thing which seems to be absent: I do not find
> clearly stated how are the identifier and locator stored in the IPv6
> packet. From some paragraphs, I guess the locator use the high-order
> 64 bits of the IPv6 address and the identifier the low-order bits but
> I was not able to find it clearly written.
> 
> Another point is more a detail: the documents seem to mandate that
> there is a state in the machine for every ILNP correspondent (the
> ILCC). This is no problem for a HTTP server (there is already the TCP
> state) but more problematic for active authoritative DNS servers:
> today, they are able to sustain a very high activity because they have
> absolutely zero state. May be the ILCC could be made optional for
> stateless servers? (There is no need to receive locator updates for
> the ultra-short transactions of the DNS.)
> 
> Otherwise, there is a typo in the references,
> draft-irtf-rrg-ilnp-noncev6 is written draft-irtf-rrg-ilnp-nonce6 in
> the docs (no 'v').