Alex - thanks, that clarification helps. I wasn't sure if PD using ICMPv6
was using the phrase "prefix delegation" as you defined it, or to assign
a prefix between the requesting node and the assigning node (to
simulate a point-to-point link), or both.
- Ralph
-----Original Message-----
From: Rao Satyanarayana-W60007 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thu 8/24/2006 12:33 PM
To: Petrescu Alexandru-AAP021; Ralph Droms (rdroms)
Cc: IETF IPv6 Mailing List; Bernie Volz (volz)
Subject: RE: Prefix Delegation using ICMPv6
Thanks, Alex.
We too think the same about the use of PD - to be able subnet further
and RA downstream.
- Satya Rao
Mobile Devices Technology Office
Motorola
Tel: 512-996-6781
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Petrescu Alexandru-AAP021
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:04 AM
> To: Ralph Droms (rdroms)
> Cc: IETF IPv6 Mailing List; Bernie Volz (volz)
> Subject: Re: Prefix Delegation using ICMPv6
>
> Ralph Droms (rdroms) wrote:
> > Alexandru - you've used a phrase that I still don't
> understand. What
> > does it mean for a node to have a prefix that "it can reuse
> [...] for
> > itself and for others"?
>
> Ralph, thanks for asking. "A node having a prefix it can
> reuse for itself and for others" means that the node derives
> shorter prefixes from the one that is delegated and it
> eventually RAs them into a network for which is responsible.
> Something like a router at home connected to ADSL needs a
> whole prefix for the other PCs in house.
>
> This is a potential use of prefix delegation. I'm not sure
> whether the ICMPv6-PD authors think the same about what's PD
> needed for. They would clarify, I hope.
>
> Alex
>
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