Samita Chakrabarti wrote:

> As for existing IPv6 nodes that do not support MIPv6 at all
> and does not recognize "mobility Header", the draft should
> specify that they should respond with a ICMP PARAM problem.

RFC 2463 takes care of this. Draft-17 of MIPv6 specifies how

to deal with the reception of the resulting ICMP parameter
problem in section 11.5.2.


> Irrespective of RO being MUST/SHOULD, non-MIPv6 compliant IPv6
> nodes should send ICMP error when it receives a binding
> update with MIPv6 protocol headers. 
> 
> If the mobile node sees an error from CN for processing BU, then
> it will continue communication through reverse tunnel path.
> 
> So, I don't see much issues with incompatibility with existing
> IPv6 nodes-except they need to upgrade to mipv6-compliant IPv6
> node sometime.


I agree.

Jari

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