Re: [shim6] Exit selection [New Version Notification - draft-mrw-nat66-08.txt]

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

Scott,

That may well be true, but shouldn't we work here to define the
requirements from the shim6 point of view?

I must go and read the MIF documents sometime. It could be they
have already defined sufficient requirements for shim6.

   Brian

On 2011-03-12 08:13, Scott W Brim wrote:
> Shim6 itself cannot select an exit.  In all but trivial cases the network
> has the intelligence and must be involved (e.g. the exit points).  Given
> that one has to involve the network, then an exit selection mechanism is not
> just for Shim6 but for anything that can take advantage of multiple src+dst
> pairs, and it should not be Shim6-specific.  Therefore whatever needs doing,
> I recommend that it not be done in Shim6 but somewhere more general --
> IntArea WG looks like a good place.
> 
> Scott
>