Another philosophical question on ILNP. draft-irtf-rrg-ilnp-eng-06 and draft-irtf-rrg-ilnp-icmpv6-06 do not mention what to do when a Locator Update (which is, after all, just an ordinary ICMP message) is lost. There is no mention of retrying (DNS-style). Retrying could be triggered by the absence of a Locator Update Acknowledgement but both drafts say nothing about the use of Acknowledgements.
draft-irtf-rrg-ilnp-noncev6-06 says: Hence, the node that has had all previously valid Locators become invalid MUST include the Nonce Option with the appropriate nonce value in all packets (data or otherwise) to all correspondents for at least 3 round-trip times for each correspondent. [...] This 'gratuitous authentication' ensures that the correspondent can authenticate any received packet, even if the ICMP Locator Update control message arrives and is processed AFTER some other packet using the new Source Locator(s). But this covers only the case where the Locator Update is delayed, not the case where it is lost. Or should a node update its ILCC when receving these 'gratuitous authentication' packets with a new Source Locator? I do not find any explicit mention of it. _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
