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RE: comments on draft-larsson-v6ops-mip-scenarios-00.txt

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Soliman, Hesham wrote: 
> (Also to Hesham.)
>
> Hesham was stating that this stuff already exists, MIPv4 is doing it
> already.
>
> BUT REMEMBER, YOU'RE PLUGGING THAT FUNCTIONALITY TO MIPV6 NOW!
>
> Clear enough? :)  Sorry for yelling.

=> And? Actually, HMIPv6 has this feature already. So it's not
entirely new to MIPv6.

This doesn't help because it seems to be kind of using stateless address autoconfiguration mechanisms, so it's entirely dependant on v6. You cannot deploy similar technology for v4.

With v4, at least (and possibly with v6, depending on the solution), the home agent will have to keep some DHCP-like "address pool". Putting that code in the MIPv6 HA function is a non-trivial exercise.

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