Re: Shim6 Working Group Last call on the Shim6 Document Set

[Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>]

Brian,

Thanks for these (ever so slightly belated) WGLC comments.

Among the shim6 documents still on our agenda as a WG is the 
applicability document. The (currently expired) draft 
draft-ietf-shim6-applicability-02.txt includes this consideration 
regarding SHIM6 and SCTP, and also includes applicability comments 
relating to interaction with other protocols (section 5).

I would like to propose that your comments are addressed in the related 
current SHIM6 document activity on the topic of an applicability 
statement, and, given that situation, there is no compelling case to 
revise the protocol document to include this (and related) applicability 
considerations.

I trust that this is an acceptable approach to this consideration to you 
and the WG and that we are still in a position to submit the protocol 
document to the IESG as a Proposed Standard.


regards,

  Geoff



Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 2007-06-25 02:25, Geoff Huston wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This note starts the WG Last Call for comments on the three "base" 
> > Shim6 documents as Proposed Standards:
> >
> > draft-ietf-shim6-proto-08.txt
> >              "Level 3 multihoming shim protocol"
>
> One substantive comment. The need for some ULPs to bypass the
> shim is mentioned in section 4.3, API Extensions, but there is
> no reference to the need for SCTP to bypass the shim, which
> is not an issue for the socket API. I think that needs to
> be mentioned somewhere.
>
> > draft-ietf-shim6-hba-03.txt
> >              "Hash Based Addresses (HBA)"
> >
> > draft-ietf-shim6-failure-detection-08.txt
> >              "Failure Detection and Locator Pair
> >               Exploration Protocol for IPv6
> >               Multihoming"
>
> No substantive comments on these two.
>
>     Brian
>
> > These documents can be found at:
> >   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-shim6-proto-08.txt
> >   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-shim6-hba-03.txt
> >
> > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-shim6-failure-detection-08.txt 
> >
> >
> > Please review the documents carefully, and send your feedback to the 
> > SHIM6 list.
> > Please also indicate whether or not you believe that these documents 
> > are ready to
> > go to the IESG for publication as a set of Proposed Standards.
> >
> > This Working Group Last Call will end in two weeks, on the 9th July 
> > 2007 at
> > 1100, UTC+10
> >
> >    Thanks,
> >
> >
> >          Geoff & Kurtis