Re: noid and applications (generic requirements from applications)

[Juan Rodriguez Hervella <jrh@it.uc3m.es>]

On Thursday 13 November 2003 14:36, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:
> On torsdag, nov 13, 2003, at 04:11 Europe/Stockholm, Iljitsch van
>
> Beijnum wrote:
> > On 12-nov-03, at 20:45, Erik Nordmark wrote:
> >> The only thing to consider is when AID(A) isn't working as a locator
> >> when
> >> C tries to contact it.
> >>
> >> There are two choices:
> >> C can detect that the locator doesn't work and do a reverse+forward
> >> DNS
> >> lookup to get the whole locator set (Ls(A)).
> >> or
> >> The referal can include Ls(A) instead of just the AID(A); this
> >> requires
> >> modifying existing IPv6 appication protocols which do referal.
> >
> > I think it would be a good idea to look at a referral API. Such an API
> > would allow a host to ask the system to create a neat little package
> > containing all the pertinent locator and identifier information, then
> > it can transmit this package to a correspondent and the correspondent
> > can then unwrap it and use the content to do whatever it needed the
> > referral for. The advantage of such a system is that it could allow
> > applications that need referral to be completely independent of lower
> > layer technologies, such as the multihoming solution we're going to
> > implement, and the differences between IPv4 and IPv6. The downside
> > would be that this referral package could get significantly larger
> > than a simple address.
>
> Although I am tempted to say that a multi6 API with ULP hints, referral
> package, etc is a good idea - I am not sure I think that is where we
> should be right now. This will mean that applications will have to be
> rewritten in order to make full use of the mulihoming solution. Maybe
> this is another topic for Elliot's draft?
>
> - kurtis -

The Ilijtshc's comment raise the question whether multihoming should be
solved at the IP layer. I'm sure that applications can find out a (better) 
multihoming solution.

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