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Re: New I-D Submitted (Re: Newbie Question about addressing impacts)

On 15-okt-04, at 11:01, Arifumi Matsumoto wrote:

In short, in our model, ISPs provide Source Address Selection
Policies as well as Prefix Delegation Info by DHCP.
The consumer edge router receives those policies (from
multiple ISPs) and re-distribute them to end nodes.
End nodes put them into policy table, which leads to
appropriate source address selection.

http://www.nttv6.net/~arifumi/draft-arifumi-multi6-sas-policy-dist -00.txt

Hm, I'm worried about the policy information becoming too extensive to fit comfortably in DHCP or RA packets. I guess it would be possible to broadcast basic policy information this way and then create a cache of more specific information on-demand, e.g. when ICMP messages come in.

(The advantage of using RA here is that when connectivity changes, a lot of hosts can be informed quickly about a new policy.)

http://www.nttv6.net/~arifumi/draft-arifumi-ipv6-nd-source-address- selection-opt-00.txt
http://www.nttv6.net/~arifumi/draft-hirotaka-dhc-source-address- selection-opt-00.txt

Why must the padding be ones? On many systems, newly allocated memory is filled with zeros, so this would be easier. And then there's tradition. :-)