Re: multi6-functional-dec and re-homing

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

john.loughney@nokia.com wrote:
> Marcelo,
>
>
> > well, i am not sure about this...
> > My point was about establishing new communication after an outage with 
> > external hosts that don't implement the shim.
> > This is important becuase at least in the early days, most of nodes 
> > won't implement shim.
> > Explicitly taking this point into consideration would allow to provide 
> > some degree of fault tolerance (i.e. the capability of establishing new 
> > communications after an outage) even in communications with nodes that 
> > don't implement the shim.
>
>
> This is a general transition issue; I guess the protocol should specify how
> an shim6 endpoint works with a non-shim6 endpoint.

The simple answer is that it then works like a non-shim endpoint.
The goals in RFC 3582 don't include any benefits for non-multi6-aware
hosts.

    Brian