I think improving the text to make this clearer would be useful. Thanks, Yoav
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carsten Bormann Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 9:02 AM To: Jongsoo Jeong Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [6lowpan] Don't 6LRs need to register their addresses to 6LBR? On Oct 7, 2010, at 08:29, Jongsoo Jeong wrote: > Hello. > > I have a question with 6lowpan-nd. > In the 'Section 10.3.1. Bootstrapping a Router', A sentence "Initially R1 behaves as a host." makes me confused. Does it means that 6LRs must register their address? 6LoWPAN-ND does not take a position. It offers a way to do address validation for all nodes (hosts and routers). If you have another way to get addresses for routers (e.g., pre-configuration, some form of management protocol such as ISA SP100, DHCPv6), 6LoWPAN-ND does not force you to use its mechanisms. > If it does, do they have to register their address periodically after they started a routing protocol? Otherwise, how can 6lowpan-nd prevent collisions of 6LRs' addresses? If you do use the 6LoWPAN-ND mechanisms, then you indeed need to keep the registration fresh. Do you think we could improve the text to make this clearer? Gruesse, Carsten _______________________________________________ 6lowpan mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lowpan _______________________________________________ 6lowpan mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lowpan
