Wojciech,

This isn't answers to questions I asked.
They remain open.

RD

Le 2012-04-10 à 11:51, Wojciech Dec a écrit :

> Remi,
> 
> you're apparently confusing matters. There is no need to have a DHCPv6 
> option, or a million node deployment to test MAP implementations. DS-lite is 
> a good example, with implementations and standards track before the DHCPv6 
> option.
> 
> Needless to say, if you're implying that tests of MAP without testing the 
> standards based DHCPv6 option are insufficient, then any test of 4rd-u or 
> anything for that matter without using the fully standards DHCP option would 
> be equally flawed. 
> At the very least however, MAP does not need to prove on thing: Compatibility 
> with IPv6, which 4rd-u would need to.
> 
> -Woj.
> 
> On 10 April 2012 11:37, Rémi Després <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, all,
> 
> We have heard many times that MAP is completely specified, and has been 
> extensively tested.
> Yet:
> - mapping rules of tested configurations have not been provided
> - several missing points of the MAP-T+E specification have been identified 
> (ref (*) www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/softwires/current/msg04049.html).
> 
> This mail is just about ONE of these, the hub-and-spoke issue.
> It has been discussed several times but AFAIK still without a complete answer.
> 
> The difficulty is that:
> - The MAP-DHCPv6 draft has no parameter to indicate whether the ISP-chosen 
> topology is mesh or hub-and-spoke.
> - According to the MAP-address-and-port draft, "each MAP node in the domain 
> has the same set of rules".
> - As answered in the mail below, the choice "needs to be provisioned. either 
> explicitly or implicitly (via the rules)".
> 
> Questions I have are then:
> - Is the choice provisioned explicitly, implicitly, or possibly both?
> - How?
> - Which tests have confirmed that it worked?
> 
> Answer by any one who asserts he or she understands how MAP works will be 
> welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> RD
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > De : Ole Trøan <[email protected]>
> > Date : 2012-03-14 14:29
> > À : Rémi Després <[email protected]>
> > Cc : Tomasz Mrugalski <[email protected]>, Softwires WG 
> > <[email protected]>
> > Objet : Rép : [Softwires] Question about hub-and-spoke operation in MAP
> >
> > Remi,
> >
> >> I couldn't figure out by how CEs can be required to work hub-and-spoke 
> >> without some DHCPv6 indication:
> >> - If two CEs apply the same BMR to their delegated IPv6 prefixes, how do 
> >> they know whether their ISP expects direct paths between them (mesh) or BR 
> >> hairpinning (hub-and-spoke)?
> >>
> >
> > that's correct it needs to be provisioned. either explicitly or implicitly 
> > (via the rules).
> >
> > cheers,
> > Ole
> 
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