RE: Extending shim6 to use multiple locator pairs simultaneously

[<john.loughney@nokia.com>]

Vijay,

>> > For SCTP + SHIM (which Marcelo & I had a hallway chat about - and 
>> > maybe should write-up), there could be confusion about what the 
>> > 'path' is when combined.  I think the SHIM API should have a 
>> > mechanism to signal up to the transport layer that the SHIM layer 
>> > has re-homed so that the transport layer could decide what should
be 
>> > done - if it thinks slow-start should be run, etc.
>>
>> I don't understand how your comment relates to Scott's idea to run 
>> multiple paths in parallel. You seem to be talking about 
>shim and sctp 
>> interaction, which wasn't what I and Scott was discussing.
>>
>> If you are talking about how SCTP and SHIM6 would interact, 
>I think we 
>> want to start from the point of SCTP setting the DONTSHIM option, so 
>> that the shim and sctp aren't used for the same communication.
>
>I agree with this. we discussed this briefly when we were 
>having the shim6 + mip6 discussion. you would be better off 
>turning shim6 off when you use SCTP.

That was exactly my point.

John