I'm slightly confused about the following wording in section 4 of the default address selection draft:
If an application or upper-layer specifies a source address that is not in the candidate set for the destination, then the network layer MUST treat this as an error. The specified source address may influence the candidate set, by affecting the choice of outgoing interface. Could someone clarify the intention of this paragraph? The only input accepted by the source address mechanism specified in this draft is a destination address and a candidate set. Where does an application or an upper-layer get to "specify" a source address in this mechanism? If the intent of the paragraph is to restrict what addresses applications can use as source addresses when this default mechanism isn't used, then I think it's outside the scope of the document. This document should, in my opinion, only deal with the default case when an application has not specified an explicit source address. -Sebastien -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
