I didn't mean to send this to the ML. I still don't know why it did. I
apologize if it offends anybody. Anyway, my position reminds the same. I
would like to work with others to improve technology, not arguing for the
sake of arguing. 

Yiu

On 4/10/12 8:02 PM, "Lee, Yiu" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Hi Remi,
>
>I think Woj has answered the question that MAP-E will require explicit
>provision. He may not answer very clearly YES or NO, but saying it is
>durable. IMNO, explicit or implicit is very critical. Implicit is
>definitely better but it isn't a real concern if we have to provision a
>parameter. IMHo, we should stop here and don't give other people we are
>dog-fighting. I think slowly we will build up more support by showing
>others we are willing to work with others.
>
>Thanks,
>Yiu 
>
>P.S. I will real Maoke's draft about 4rd-u.
>
>
>On 4/10/12 12:02 PM, "Rémi Després" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Hi, Tomek,
>>
>>AFAIK, deciding whether hub-and-spoke selection is implicit by mapping
>>rules or explicit with a parameter is a more general matter than an
>>option or sub-optiuon format.
>>
>>I know you can adapt to any choice made by the team in this respect.
>>
>>What remains is that we still don't know whether it is possible to make
>>it implicitly or not.
>>
>>Th fact that DHCPv6 provisioning hasn't been tested, if confirmed, isn't
>>a big deal at all IMHO, but the question was worth asking.
>>
>>What is more significant is that nobody seems to be able to say, today,
>>whether it can be  implicit or not, and how it will work.
>>
>>Regards,
>>RD
>>
>>   
>>
>>Le 2012-04-10 à 13:52, Tomek Mrugalski a écrit :
>>
>>> On 10.04.2012 11:51, Wojciech Dec wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>>> On 10 April 2012 11:37, Rémi Després <[email protected]
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>    The difficulty is that:
>>>>    - The MAP-DHCPv6 draft has no parameter to indicate whether the
>>>>    ISP-chosen topology is mesh or hub-and-spoke.
>>> Guys,
>>> Please be reasonable. DHCP provisioning is trivial compared to other
>>> MAP/4rd-U aspects. It is not relevant for core aspects of the
>>>technology
>>> comparisons. My advice to people who spend their time on "my solution
>>>is
>>> better than yours" discussions: Forget about DHCP for now and focus on
>>> more important aspects.
>>> 
>>> My personal opinion is that DHCP does not matter at this stage. Sure,
>>>it
>>> will be needed eventually, but you can *now* test implementations that
>>> are statically configured.
>>> 
>>> Now, to the actual question about hub&spoke. We assumed that CE can
>>> detect on its own if it is running in hub&spoke or mesh topology by
>>> analyzing received rules. See last paragraph of section 4.2 of
>>> mdt-softwire-map-dhcp-option that explain this simple algorithm (if it
>>> can be called an algorithm at all - it is a simple "if" statement).
>>> 
>>> Honestly speaking as a co-author of MAP DHCP option draft, I didn't
>>>want
>>> to spend too much time on this *yet*. That is also one of the reasons
>>> why I didn't look at 4rd-U DHCP option yet. It changes too greatly
>>> between revisions.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Tomek
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