Re: [v6ops] Focused discussion: draft-ietf-v6ops-unique-ipv6-prefix-per-host

["Templin, Fred L" <[e-mail]>]

People have asked about overlap between this work and AERO. The overlap
is in the way SoftGRE works in comparison with the AERO link model. SoftGRE
to my understanding is just another example of a Non-Broadcast, Multiple
Access (NBMA) tunnel virtual overlay in exactly the same fashion as for AERO.
The AP is analogous to the AERO Client, and the WLAN-GW is analogous to
the AERO Server. That the APs are bridging instead of providing a terminus
for prefix delegation is unique to this work, and not covered by AERO. But,
the tunnel virtual link model is one and the same.

That said, AERO can benefit this work through the manner in which multiple
WLAN-GWs can be networked to create a global routing system that can
sustain UE-to-prefix associations wherever the UEs happen to pop up in
the global community WiFi routing structure. It can be handled through
the addition of a new construct which I am calling the "WLAN-RELAY",
which is analogous to the AERO Relay, and through the introduction of
a private BGP instance that keeps track of all UE-to-WLAN-GW associations.
 I explained how this all works in my message to Gert several messages back,
and I would like to offer this as input to the authors of this draft:

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/v6ops/jN0vAnHPchobrHTp22tjQbFjGN4
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-templin-aerolink/

Thanks - Fred
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