Re: [shim6] AD review of draft-ietf-shim6-multihome-shim-api

Miika Komu <mkomu@cs.hut.fi> Mon, 11 October 2010 08:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: [shim6] AD review of draft-ietf-shim6-multihome-shim-api
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Hi,

On 10/11/2010 12:23 AM, Jari Arkko wrote:

>> Peer's locator set
>> is provided by the peer, and a node cannot propose peer's locator. I
>> believe it's the same for HIP. Let me clarify this point with Miika
>> off-line.
>
> OK. I think the simplest solution would be to simply forbid the API user
> from inserting unknown locators. If you want to go beyond that it is of
> course possible, but will complicate things.

it is a very useful feature if the application can provide at least the 
initial mapping from the destination HIT to the corresponding IP 
address. Contrast to SHIM6, HIP does not have routable ULIDs...