>From: "Templin, Fred L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 2006/08/23 Wed PM 07:12:23 CDT >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: IETF IPv6 Mailing List <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: Re: Prefix Delegation using ICMPv6
>Tim, > >I took a look at the I-D and it reads well. Hi Fred, thanks. I see that you >(and the co-authors) are asking RSs to carry PIOs by way of >requesting specific prefixes, and that you are asking for new >flag bits (the 'P' bit in the RS message 'Reserved' field and >the 'D' bit in the PIO 'Reserved1' field) which would qualify >this as an RS/RA-based prefix delegation mechanism. Yes. > >But then, I see in Sections 5.1 and 5.2 that the specification >is also asking for new ICMPv6 message types, so the mechanism >is apparently not implemented via RS/RA messages alone. These ICMPv6 message types/codes are for error messages. Is >there a way to do this with RS/RA alone, or do you also need >the extra ICMPv6 messages? > >Fred >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tim Rom 8:28 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
