I'm still hoping to see a response to this.

On 06/02/2013 8:42 AM, Tom Taylor wrote:
Section 5 of the latest version of MAP has the following:

    1.  Basic Mapping Rule (BMR) - mandatory, used for IPv4 prefix,
        address or port set assignment.  There can only be one Basic
        Mapping Rule per End-user IPv6 prefix.  The Basic Mapping Rule is
        used to configure the MAP IPv6 address or prefix.

    2.  Forwarding Mapping Rule (FMR) - optional, used for forwarding.
        The Basic Mapping Rule is also a Forwarding Mapping Rule.  Each
        Forwarding Mapping Rule will result in an entry in the Rules
        table for the Rule IPv4 prefix.

Question: there will always be a BMR. In the absence of additional
rules, how does a CE know whether it can use the BMR for forwarding or
must always use the default rule?

Remark: I'm not sure these two bullets tell the full story as they
stand. I propose to modify them as follows:

    1.  Basic Mapping Rule (BMR) - mandatory.  There can only be one
        Basic Mapping Rule per End-user IPv6 prefix.  In combination
        with the End-user IPv6 prefix, the Basic Mapping Rule is used
        to derive the IPv4 prefix, address, or shared address and
        the PSID assigned to the CE.

    2.  Forwarding Mapping Rule (FMR) - optional, used for forwarding.
        The Basic Mapping Rule is also a Forwarding Mapping Rule.  Each
        Forwarding Mapping Rule will result in an entry in the Rules
        table for the Rule IPv4 prefix.  Given a destination IPv4 address
        and port within the MAP domain, a MAP node can use the matching
        FMR to derive the MAP IPv6 address of the interface through
        which that destination address-port combination can be reached.

Tom Taylor
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