Hi Ian,

On 2013/02/15, at 17:29, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Ole,
> 
> Assuming that the Unified CPE draft gets adopted by the workgroup, then
> there needs to be alignment of the different drafts reflecting this.
> 
> The unified CPE draft describes how a CPE interprets the presence (or lack
> of) configuration parameters to understand which softwire mode to
> configure. If a MAP CE implemented this (to be a 'unified MAP CE'), then
> it would have two ways of configuring 1:1 mode - via the presence of the
> tunnel endpoint address, an IPv4 address (and optionally a restricted port
> range) and also through a BMR with EA=0.
> 
> Two ways of configuring the same function doesn't seem like a good idea,
> even if the underlying mechanism that this function is implemented with is
> different.

I believe that supporting bunch of provision ways is most significant role of 
your 'unified CPE' work. I also think that there are another work for 
unified-cpe to support not only encap solution but also translation such as 
MAP-T, 4rd and 464XLAT. While hesitate to do that, I recommend wg to postpone 
the adoption of unified-CPE draft. I suppose you would argue that these aren't 
scope of softwire, but what does mean 'unified' for?


> 
> So, what I would propose is that EA=0 for MAP is not included as a
> provisioning option in the MAP draft. If the parameters described in the
> unified CPE draft required for 1:1 mode are configured on the unified MAP
> CE, then it should interpret these to mean EA=0 and configure itself
> accordingly.
> 

In my opinion, it is quite unreasonable. 


> 
> I also think that it would be cleaner if this 1:1 functionality was
> described in a separate document to the current MAP draft. As the 1:1 mode
> functionality of MAP is a big architectural change to the mesh mode
> function, it really needs a lot more than 2 paragraphs in order to
> describe what it is and how it is used.
> 

I agree that the document has to be concise but MAP document should be 
consistent so let us make clear for a case when EA-len configured to zero in 
the document.

cheers,
--satoru

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