Hi Zach,

The issue with NEMO is that if nodes move from one router to another
(meaning the routers doing the nemo signaling), their address change.
NEMO is made to handle mobility of the whole network behind the router,
not individual nodes moving from this network to another.

What you are probably looking for is Proxy Mobile IPv6
(http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5213.txt) and in general the work behing
done by the netlmm working group
(http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/netlmm-charter.html) and the netext
working group (http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/netext-charter.html).

Best,
Julien

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Zach Shelby
Sent: lundi 25 mai 2009 15:16
To: 6lowpan
Subject: [6lowpan] MIPv6 and 6LoWPAN

Hi,

On a bit of a tangent... I have been studying different ways of dealing
with mobility of 6LoWPAN nodes and networks. Extended LoWPANs provide
some mobility support for micro-mobility, which is good. Properly
designed applications can also deal with IP addresses changing. But what
if you would want to have a stable IP address for a 6LoWPAN node or a
stable prefix for a whole LoWPAN?

MIPv6 have several problems to be used directly by LoWPAN nodes, e.g.:
- IP-in-IP encapsulation with the home agent
- Security for binding management messages
- Potentially large amounts of binding messages Is anyone aware of work
on MIPv6 proxy mechanisms which would allow e.g. 
an Edge Router to proxy MIPv6 operations on behalf of a LoWPAN node? 
Maybe revive the Foreign Agent for IPv6? ;-)

NEMO is much more clearly applicable to 6LoWPAN network mobility. The
basic NEMO protocol is a perfect match, allowing an Edge Router or other
router in the visited network to act as a Mobile Router and perform
MIPv6 on behalf of the network. Thus maintaining constant prefixes for
all LoWPANs under the router. I don't see route optimization to be
necessary for NEMO used with 6LoWPAN, the performance of traffic going
through the home agent should be fine.

Thoughts?

- Zach

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