RE: manual config of UE tunnel [RE: 3gpp-analysis: Recommendation on tunneling in the UE]

["Karim El-Malki (HF/EAB)" <karim.el-malki@ericsson.com>]

 > > We don't want to go there (likely to get stuck in complex GGSN
 > > and 3gpp network internals).
 > 
 > We don't know until this has been analyzed.
 > 
 > This could really be no more complicated than sending a "I want to 
 > use IPv6 using a tunnel" SMS (or something like that), and then your 
 > phone and the tunnel endpoint would be configured automatically.

Pls see Juha's email on the complexity of doing these configs.
It makes things MORE complicated.

 > 
 > >  > It seems to make that configured tunnels has about equal 
 > >  > config for 1) and
 > >  > 3), and making 2) easier should be easily possible 
 > because the 3GPP
 > >  > network must know the addresses of every user involved anyway.
 > > 
 > > See above. This can only make things very complex.
 > > 2) should not rely on special mechanisms in the 3gpp network.
 > > It is no point to have a solution that requires changes to 3gpp
 > > nodes since they might as well be upgraded to support v6!
 > 
 > Would a modification be required?  I'm not so sure of that.  There 
 > must be some mechanisms to retrieve this information, either 
 > e.g. SNMP 
 > query or access to a database, or something.  That should be pretty 
 > much all you need.

That makes certain assumptions about implementations.
Seriously, it is not feasible. Also I can't understand why you think
digging info from a database is simpler than just using ISATAP.
Anyway, enough emails on this subject for me since we're not getting
anywhere.

/Karim