Re: Newbie Question about addressing impacts

[Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com>]

One of the components we have already identified (see the minutes
from San Diego) is

 Locator selection after a failure has been detected / Choose new address pair

RFC 3484 policy distribution might be a possible solution
for that component. We aren't chartered to do basic design in
this WG, but it would certainly be good to see proof-of-concept
for this (and every) component.

     Brian


Arifumi Matsumoto wrote:
> Oops, I forgot to send CC to multi6.
>
> --
> Hi marcelo,
>
> > Well, even if you do a per host locator selection you can still manage 
> > policy in a centralized fashion, if we define proper mechanisms to 
> > perform policy distribution, for instance a dhcp option for 
> > distributing RFC3484 policy table or something similar. However, i 
> > don't know how you can enforce policy in a centralized manner when 
> > locator selection is performed by the end hosts.
>
>
> I believe that such a mechanism for policy distribution
> is really important. By making use of the existing RFC3484
> framework, IMHO we can develop much manageable multi-home
> environment in a simple and easy manner.
>
> Now I'm working on this mechanism to publish a new I-D.
> But I'm not sure such kind of topic is appropriate for
> this WG or not. I believe this part of the technology should
> be necessary for some of the proposals discussed here, though.
>
> --
> Arifumi Matsumoto
>     Ubiquitous Computing Project
>     NTT Information Sharing Platform Laboratories
>     E-mail: arifumi@nttv6.net