RE: comments on draft-durand-v6ops-assisted-tunneling-requirement s-00 .txt

[<juha.wiljakka@nokia.com>]

Karim,

It is good that you write "future" in your comment. Near future 3GPP UEs will still mainly be hosts, and not real mobile routers. But some level of "mobile router" functionality can be necessary (when thinking e.g. Bluetooth PAN).

Cheers,
	 -Juha-

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-v6ops@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-v6ops@ops.ietf.org]On
Behalf Of ext Karim El-Malki (HF/EAB)

>IP support routing. 3GPP does not support routing in the handset.
>Does this makes IP not suitable for 3GPP?
>No. You simply do not use this feature.
>Same analogy applies here. We are not trying to design something
>that works only in the 3GPP case, but can works elsewhere as well.

Your analogy doesn't fit at all IMO. You are comparing implementing
an IPv6 mobile router with an IPv4 NAT in a mobile phone. IMO an
IPv6 mobile router in a terminal is a good thing for the future of
IPv6 in 3gpp nets while a NAT is absolutely not.

/Karim