Hi John:
to answer a question..
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> For those of you not aware, there is a new transport level
> protocol, SCTP. This protocol supports transport level
> multihoming, by allowing endpoints to exchanging IP addresses
> in the association intitialization messages.
>
> This can cause some problems by allowing IP addresses to
> escape their scope, thus introducing the possibilities for
> some black holes.
>
> I'm not sure if Randy Stewart is subscribed or not (primary
> author of SCTP), but if he isn't, I can field some questions
> about SCTP (if they aren't too tough!) ...
Yes, I do subscribe but I am currently in a email burial (I
am at least 6 feet under :-0) and I don't think I will
be able to work my way out until next week... sigh..
I will try to catch up but your help is always appreciated :)
R
>
> Just a small deployment note - SCTP should start seeing some
> deployment later this year in 3G networks, as a signaling
> bearer for some radio access protocols, so it would be a
> good idea to try make sure that this issue is nailed down.
>
> thanks,
> John
>
> > Title : IPv6 addressing and Stream Control
> > Transmission Protocol
> > Author(s) : R. Stewart, S. Deering
> > Filename : draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctpipv6-00.txt
> > Pages :
> > Date : 02-Jul-01
> >
> > Stream Control Transmission Protocol [RFC2960] provides transparent
> > multi-homing to its upper layer users. This multi-homing is
> > accomplished through the passing of address parameters in the
> > initial setup message used by SCTP. In an IPv4 network all addresses
> > are passed with no consideration for their scope and routeablility.
> > In a IPv6 network special considerations MUST be made to properly
> > bring up associations between SCTP endpoints that have IPv6
> > [RFC2460] addresses bound within their association. This document
> > defines those considerations and enumerates general rules
> > that an SCTP endpoint MUST use in formulating both the INIT and
> > INIT-ACK chunks.
> >
> > A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctpipv6-00.txt
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List
> IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng
> FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng
> Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
--
Randall R. Stewart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 815-342-5222 (cell phone)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List
IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng
FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng
Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--------------------------------------------------------------------
