Re: failure detection

[Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Paul Jakma wrote:

> I'm presuming shim6 is to allow a 'split' mode of operation, where 
> end-systems on a 'shimmed' network don't know of shimming, but the 
> shimming is instead on a subset of hosts (at the edges).

Ah, well, given the following text in Geoff's rather nice 
architecture draft:

"Shim6 operates as a per-host header address mapping function."

I might be presuming incorrectly. Though, I don't /yet/ see any 
intrinsic reason why a split mode would not be possible..

regards,
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