Sure.
"For the purposes of this document, a cellular host is considered to
be a terminal that uses an air interface to connect to a cellular
access network (i.e. GPRS, UMTS, CDMA2000) in order to provide IPv6
connectivity to an IP network."
As others have pointed out it's hard to be more ambiguous than this.
What is a terminal?
There is this in the abbreviations section:
"TE Terminal Equipment. For example, a laptop attached
through a 3GPP handset."
And especially when you start talking about UMTS IMS capable devices,
one does not necessarily think of small, limited bandwidth, not updateable
with
new software, kinds of devices.
So the issue here is that it is anticipated there is about to be
an explosion of v6 capable cellular devices for 3gpp standardized
networks and that not providing guidance on host requirements may
make it difficult for such devices to interoperate? A different
approach might be to write a v6 host requirements doc akin to 1122
and realize that device implementors may have to make intelligent
decisions about what not to include if it's not possible to include
everything specified in that.
Phil
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> Hi Phil,
>
> > Well, this needs to be spelled out in some detail then.
> I'm already
> > mentally thinking of PocketPC kinds of devices whenever I here
> > cellular hosts....
>
> Could you re-read the intro to the draft and tell us what
> parts are unclear - I'm probably a bit blind to the draft at
> the moment.
>
> Anyhow, we specified the term 'minimum' to imply the base set
> of features needed to ensure interoperability. Anything
> beyond that is seen as gravy. Again, if some of our
> recommendations are off-base, please let us know.
>
> thanks,
> John
>
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