Fred, On 2009/11/18, at 23:07, Fred Baker wrote:
> > On Nov 18, 2009, at 7:43 PM, Arifumi Matsumoto wrote: > >> As I wrote in another e-mail, rather than giving over everything to hosts, I >> think, giving hints for selecting addresses should be reasonable, at least >> in some environments. > > I would very much favor having an icmp message that the network can return > that says "pick an address in this prefix if possible". That is a discussion > we have had before. And as I mentioned somewhere earlier, icmp message based approach assumes try-and-error mechanism at host. So, the difficulties mentioned here still remain, such as, - the effect to applications. They may require rewriting. - caching algorithm complexity. - possible flooding to the server and the router. - working address pair is not always desirable. ... and something I'm missing now. -- Arifumi Matsumoto Secure Communication Project NTT Information Sharing Platform Laboratories E-mail: [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
