> The conflict only becomes relevant when a multhomed node tries to > resolve a name that is not unique across all its interfaces. When it > does that it will then receive responses from more than one interface > ==> the conflict has been detected. It's then up to humans to fix it.
But there are cases when this doesn't work. For instance if you assume the devices with the conflicting names perform the conflict detection protocol but have no mechanisms beyond this protocol for the user to override the chosen name. Thus you seem to silently assume that these devices have a rich user interface that would allow humans to fix this on the devices. An alternative would be to be able to qualify the names on the multihomed node e.g. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" where the part after the @ sign is the interface on which to perform the name lookup. Thus it would be a local convention, and the camera itself would know its name as "canon-camera" only. Erik -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
