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Re: [v6ops] IPv6-Only Preferred DHCPv4 option

Gábor LENCSE <lencse@hit.bme.hu> Mon, 09 December 2019 15:33 UTC

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On 12/9/2019 15:48, Fred Baker wrote:

[...]

> The "better tool", if I understand RFC 2993 correctly, would be
> (1) to remove network layer addresses from application layer applications, so that there is no coupling between the application layer and the network layer, or

MPT could do something like that. It could also be considered as an IPv6 
transition technology, as it supports any IP version tunnel over 
(several) any IP version paths. Do you think that it could be useful for 
the above purpose?

Please see our I-D: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lencse-tsvwg-mpt-04

and our slides: 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/99/materials/slides-99-intarea-mpt-network-layer-multipath-library-00

Best regards,

Gábor

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