Hello Hesham,
I CC:'d the IPv6 mailing list... "Hesham Soliman (ERA)" wrote: > => I think the HA must defend all addresses, including > the link-local one. This is related to RFC3041 and > Francis' discussion on the IPv6 list. A node implementing > RFC 3041 might form a global address that belongs to one of > the other MN's Home addresses. Hence, if the HA does not > defend all addresses, a MN might 'lose' one of its > home addresses to another node on the home link. I'd rather prohibit such behavior. I don't see the need for it. I am surprised that RFC 3041 would allow such behavior. Can you point out the offending part of the specification? What was the justification for enabling this? Aren't there "enough" random numbers in 2^64 to avoid clobbering addresses used by other nodes? sheesh... Regards, Charlie P. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
