On 22 Jul 2013, at 10:01, Shwetha Bhandari (shwethab) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > A new draft draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata-00 describing > a method for applications to learn and influence source address selection by > associating > IPv6 prefixes with meta-data when configured by > the network is submitted. Motivation to do this and details of a prototype > that has been developed are included. Related drafts that define DHCPv6 and > ND options to realize > conveying of meta-data associated with a prefix are > draft-bhandari-dhc-class-based-prefix > and > draft-korhonen-6man-prefix-properties. > Motivation for doing this work is relevant to homenet hence adding homenet wg. Hi Swetha, You may want to have a look at draft-anipko-mif-mpvd-arch-00, if you ahven't already, which is work from a design team in the mif WG. Section 4.2.2 is very relevant. The "metadata" could also be provisioning domain information, perhaps. Tim > > On 7/15/13 8:52 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> A new version of I-D, draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata-00.txt >> has been successfully submitted by Maico Le Pape and posted to the >> IETF repository. >> >> Filename: draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata >> Revision: 00 >> Title: IPv6 Prefix Meta-data and Usage >> Creation date: 2013-07-15 >> Group: Individual Submission >> Number of pages: 16 >> URL: >> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata-00.txt >> Status: >> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata >> Htmlized: >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata-00 >> >> >> Abstract: >> This document presents a method for applications to influence the >> IPv6 source selection algorithm used by the IP stack in a host. To >> do so, IPv6 prefixes are associated with meta-data when configured by >> the network. This meta-data allows the network to describe the >> purpose and properties of the prefix enabling applications to make >> intelligent decision when selecting a prefix. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> The IETF Secretariat >> > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > [email protected] > Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > --------------------------------------------------------------------
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