Hi Daniel,

See comments inline:

On 3/1/11 3:49 PM, "Daniel Roesen" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Hi Yiu,
>
>On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 08:07:48PM +0000, Lee, Yiu wrote:
>> draft-ietf-softwire-ds-lite-tunnel-option defines the behavior how the
>>B4
>> obtains the AFTR information. It is not to define to use dhcp to signal
>> the B4 to use dual-stack mode or ds-lite mode.
>
>What would be the more appropriate place if not there?
>
>Even if deemed out of scope, wouldn't a correction to the RFC3315
>reference
>("will not reply") be imperative? Or do I misread something?
>
>> For your question, if the ISP provisions the dhcp server not to respond
>> dhcpv4 request from the B4, the B4 would use dhcpv6 to obtain the AFTR
>> information. This should be sufficient.

[YL] I will let the authors to answer this question.

>
>So your suggestion would be to have the CPE implementing DS-Lite to
>always ask for the AFTR address, but enable DS-Lite mode automatically
>only and exactly if the DHCPv4 request fails?
>
>I think there should be some guidance on recommended CPE router
>behaviour in either the ds-lite spec or the ds-lite DHCP option spec.
>Otherwise, I see DS-Lite coming in CPE routers as just an option which
>needs to be manually turned on by the customer - or every CPE router
>vendor developing their own heuristics. We'd like to avoid that.
>How to enforce DS-Lite operations is something that should be
>standardised so we can point vendors on the specification how to behave.
>
>We could probably stick it into the v6ops cpe-router-bis draft, but that
>would mean that this document needs guidance for every transition
>mechanism with similar scenarios - wouldn't it be better to describe
>desired CPE behaviour for a specific transition technologie in the spec
>of that?

[YL] I agree with you this have to be specified. I can think of either the
cpe-router-bis draft or the draft-dslite-deployment should specify the
exact behavior. Do you agree that the draft-dslite-deployment is a good
place to define this behavior?

With the open-source code I use for test, I have to manually configure the
CPE to the dslite mode, but this is less than ideal. I remember I
previously discussed this with the cpe-router-bis's authors. I will have
to dig up the old mails to find out what conclusion we reached.

Regards,
Yiu
>

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