Hi,
A few comments on the address selection API draft.
non-editorial:
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6. Security Considerations
This document conforms to the same security implications as specified
in IPv6 Basic Socket API [2] document. It is also recommended that
the applications set IPV6_V6ONLY IP level socket option to permit
the nodes to not process IPv4 packets as IPv4 Mapped addresses.
==> even if I kinda agree with the last sentence, it seems to me to be a bit
farfetched to be mentioned in this spec?
- Is there a need for "validation" functions to go with these
preferences such as functions that check whether an address is
a temporary address?
==> perhaps validation functions would be nice, but generally speaking, it
is not possible to, for certainty, to ensure what an address is or isn't?
==> Please clarify whether you meant a macro like "IN6_IS_ADDR_LOOPBACK" or
something "verify whether this address assigned on the node was of type
X"?
mostly editorial:
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Expires: August, 2003 Samita Chakrabarti
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Julien Laganier
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
LIP / ENS-Lyon
February, 2003
==> a typo with affilications I assume, extra Sun?
IPv6 Socket API for source address selection
draft-chakrabarti-ipv6-addrselect-api-00.txt
==> uppercase words
INTERNET-DRAFT IPv6 Socket API for source address selection Feb., 2003
==> s/Feb., 2003/Feb 2003/ should be enough.
4. Changes to the protocol-independent nodename translation
Section 8 of Default Address Selction [1] document indicates about
==> s/Selc/Selec/
5. IPv4-Mapped IPv6 Addresses
IPv4-Mapped IPv6 addresses are not supported for setting preference
on home, care-of-address, CGA, non-CGA, public or privacy auto-
configured addresses as source addresses. Because they are all pure
IPv6 addresses.
==> reword the last sentence to mix better with the rest.
==> isn't it "IPv4-mapped" with small m?
[2] R.E. Gilligan, S. Thomson, J. Bound, J. McCann, W. R. Stevens,
"Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6",
draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2553bis-10.txt, December, 2002.
==> surnames first, initial next in the ref author lists
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