Hello Alex,

On Nov 3, 2012, at 17:41 , Alexandru Petrescu <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Le 25/10/2012 15:52, Michael Richardson a écrit :
>> 
>> ralph> Why wouldn't RPL be used for such networks? It has built-in
>> PD for ralph> dynamic networks, if I understand it correctly, with
>> RA used at the ralph> subnet level.
>> 
>> Alexandru Petrescu <[email protected]> wrote: AP> RA used
>> to exchange routes - if this is what you mean, and yes it may be AP>
>> used by RPL (last time I read it).
>> 
>> AP> If the question is about this, then I think it is pertinent.
>> One may AP> imagine a way to use RPL on the MRs for that purpose.
>> 
>> AP> However, I doubt RPL can Delegate Prefixes (in the pure sense of
>> Prefix AP> Delegation).
>> 
>> RPL doesn't do this in protocol, but then, neither does ND. I
>> wouldn't extend RPL to do this, however, I'd send a DHCPv6 PD format
>> message.  It can be a single exchange, and nobody said a single
>> program can't speak multiple protocols.
> 
> Yes, but consider that DHCPv6-PD is already used in a rather complicated
> way on the MR of an IV (Internet Vehicle).  It is used according to
> rfc6276, to obtain a prefix from home.  In that it is specified that MR
> should be both a Requesting Router and a Relay for that tunnel interface.
> 
> On another hand, if the MR of LV requests a Prefix from the IV's MR then
> this latter should also be a Relay, but on a real interface as well.
> 
> One ends up with two Relay software on the same machine.  I am afraid
> this is next to impossible to configure with some existing software.

Why two Relays? I believe one relay listening to multiple interface is enough. 

Romain

>> But, I question whether one always needs to get address space, vs
>> announce it.  I don't know the answer: it really depends upon who
>> your second vehicle needs to talk to, and why it thinks that vehicle
>> one (and vehicle one's ISP) is willing to give it bandwidth.
> 
> I think both tools of announcing address space, and obtaining address
> space, should be available to vehicles, and applied depending on whether
> the communication is between two vehicle devices only, or not, whether
> the infrastructure is available, or not.
> 
> It is viable that an LV self-configures ULAs based on VIN and announces
> them only to vehicles nearby (not to infrastructure).
> 
> It is viable that an LV to get globally routable address space from an IV.
> 
>> If you don't want to speak RPL, then you need to pick the TBD
>> homenet-routing-protocol. We don't need a third.
> 
> Needing a third or not - I don't know.  But picking homenet protocol, or
> RPL for vehicles would probably involve a large change in requirements
> of either.
> 
> Alex
> 
>> 
> 
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