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RE: draft-nielsen-v6ops-3GPP-zeroconf-goals-00.txt
Pekka,
No disagreement there.
The tricky exercise, of course, is to identify
the necessary features (the reasonable means)
that such 3GPP pilot IPv6 applications
would depend on.
BR, Karen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pekka Savola [mailto:pekkas@netcore.fi]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 6:15 PM
> To: Karen E. Nielsen (AH/LMD)
> Cc: 'the otter'; karen.e.neilsen@ericsson.com; v6ops@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: RE: draft-nielsen-v6ops-3GPP-zeroconf-goals-00.txt
>
>
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Karen E. Nielsen (AH/LMD) wrote:
> >> IMHO the issue I see with leaving these out is the transition
> >> mechanism
> >> becomes a solution for only the most basic of "web" type services.
> >> While this makes the solution simple, it removes the motivation for
> >> IPv6 within the 3GPP network. It is important to at least match or
> >> mimic the functionality available in the IPv4 domain.
> >
> > Tunnelling in 3GPP is not intended to provide full emulation of
> > the native IPv4 or native IPv6 services, since that would
> basically require
> > full dual IP support in all related 3GPP signalling interfaces.
>
> Without knowing the details here, I'll have to personally join in the
> first mentioned sentiment: as far as I see it, the UE
> tunneling offers
> the operators and UE vendors the chance to pilot IPv6 application
> deployments etc. without requiring immediate upgrades in the 3GPP
> network.
>
> Unless the tunneling can provide a reasonable means to test out at
> least some potential applications that could be realized with IPv6,
> then its applicability might be a bit questionable.
>
> Remember, IPv6 isn't all that inrestesting just because of a dancing
> turtle on a web page ;-). It needs to provide a way to deploy nice
> new applications. Even though full functions of IPv6 were not yet
> realized with the tentative tunneling solution, IMHO it
> should provide
> at least basic means to deploy some novel IPv6 applications (e.g.,
> relativng to peer-to-peer).
>
> --
> Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the
> Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds."
> Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
>