On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Bound, Jim wrote: > > mobile node functionality. If a node is fixed and will not > > move, what use is mobile node functionality? > > A server in a helicopter or plane is mobile for a few applications. I > understand I am trying to make a point that this exercise needs to be > focused on more than the term "node".
Such is hardly a minimal or even typical case of IPv6. > > > > Hosts SHOULD support route optimization requirements for > > > > correspondent nodes. Routers do not need to support route > > > > optimization. > > > > > > > > Routers MAY support home agent functionality. > > > > > > Routers SHOULD support the HA is correct effort. Otherwise > > > MIPv6 don't work. > > > > Not all routers need to be Home Agents I don't believe that > > plain, vanilla routers will be affected by home agent functionality. > > Routers that implement MIPv6 SHOULD support HAs. Again context is > everything. There requirement: Routers SHOULD support the requirements set for all IPv6 routers. basically only means the support of new RA intervals and such "trivial" changes -- which enable smoother first-hop-router to MN's-in-foreign-networks scenario. Requiring HA is entirely different issue. -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
