Dear Tom,

Thanks for bringing this up. I think Suresh's proposal (as is described in your 
mail) is fair enough. IMHO, for Lightweight 4 over 6 contiguous is enough (a = 
0). While for MAP-E, considering PSID is required for the construction of IPv6 
prefix, arbitrary value is necessary for that use.

Best Regards,
Qi
> 
> Thanks, Woj. I think I started off in the wrong direction, and should focus 
> specifically on Suresh's proposal: GMA for both Light-Weight 4 over 6 and 
> MAP-E, with default a=0 for the former and a=6 for the latter.
> 
> When a=0, the GMA algorithm does degenerate to assigning ports as a single 
> contiguous range per CPE. Min_port for a given PSID is given by the formula 
> PSID * range size, or, in the notation of MAP-E section 5.1, PSID * 2^m. 
> Max_port is given by Min_port + range size - 1.
> 
> With MAP-E, range size is inferred indirectly from the combination of the 
> IPv4 prefix length in the Basic Map Rule and the number of EA bits. This 
> information is not available for Light-Weight 4 over 6. Hence I believe the 
> proposal to use GMA with a=0 for the latter amounts to explicit provisioning 
> of PSID and range size to both the BR and the CPE.
> 
> 
> 
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