draft-ietf-shim6-reach-detect-01.txt

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

Hi,

I hope the internet-drafts people are lenient, because I submitted it  
a few minutes late and with terrible formatting... For those who  
can't wait: http://www.muada.com/drafts/draft-ietf-shim6-reach- 
detect-01.txt

What I tried to do in this draft is to describe what really needs to  
happen to make reachability detection work. There is very little of  
the 00 version left, and there are also lots of details that weren't  
discussed in Amsterdam. An important new aspect is that reachability  
issues begin context-related, then go up/down to the global host-wide  
level and come back to the context level again at the end. I also did  
away with any host ids or context tags: implementations will simply  
have to infer this information from the locators used and/or trust  
that the other side knows what it's doing.

In the mean time, I gather that Jari absorbed the previous version of  
this draft into his. I haven't had time yet to look at his work, but  
at some point all of this has to merge so that will probably be  
interesting.

I'll be catching up with what has been happening on the list the past  
few weeks soon.

Iljitsch