Itojun,

there have never been any suboptions defined for the home address
option.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >The home address option is the same in format as the
> >previous version.  The additional requirement now is
> >only that now it's required to be secured somehow.
> 
>         no it is not.  also option type # got changed
>         draft 04-06: type, length and an IPv6 address, type # = "196???"
>         draft 07: type, length, an IPv6 address and suboptions,
>                 type # = "196???"
>         draft 08-16: type, length, an IPv6 address and suboptions, type # = 201
>         draft 17-18: type, length and an IPv6 address, type # = 201
> 
>         note that existence/non-existence of suboption will affect validation
>         of incoming messages.

when there is no vaild sub-option defined, I would expect one 
to write code which would drop the packet, if the packet came 
with some sub-option.

>         no wonder vendors ship without HAO support, it is impossible to
>         support something that changes this often.  

it has been an internet draft so far. people who implement internet
drafts do it knowing very well that it could change.

> as for *BSD/KAME, it is
>         decided that we won't merge anything related to mobile-ip6 into main
>         *BSD distribution until mobile-ip6 becomes RFC (so it won't show up
>         onto ExtremeWare, JunOS, MacOS X, ...).

okay. fair enough.

regards
Vijay
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