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RE: new version of the CPE Rtr draft is ready for review
Hi,
I like this document a lot, and really look forward to get
this forward.
Few comments:
- 5.4. says that CPE router has failed DHCPv6 address
acquisition if IA_PD option is not included in ADVERTISE/REPLY in stateful
DHCPv6 case. Now considering case where a CPE router is embedded into
mobile host that is attaching to different networks, some of which may
mandate DHCPv6 use and some of which don't: if the mobile host always asks for
IA_PD, but sometimes doesn't get it (due differencies in network policies),
isn't the address acquisition process still successful for the host itself,
but just not for CPE router function of the host? I mean could this section
be clarified to state that in such case the address acquisition is only
partially succesful? And perhaps that in such case the CPE router can configure
the IPv6 address for itself and at the same time initiate
other-but-less-preferred means for providing Internet connectivity to LAN side,
such as fall-back to IPv4-only CPE router functionality, bridging, (NATting
between ULA and global IPv6 address...), or doing ND
proxying?
- Is there a reason why ND Proxy (RFC4389) is not
mentioned? Because it is of experimental category?
- 5.5.2. one scenario for WAN initialization before
LAN is that LAN side is not initialized at all without external host first
connecting to CPE router by some technology. Again cellular use case: a mobile
has always-on WAN connectivity for usual uses (VoIP/email/MMS/browsing) and a
host (say PC) initiates WLAN/Bluetooth/USB/whatever connection to a mobile only
much later than initial WAN connection was created. In such case the trigger for
requesting IA_PD would be initialization of LAN side physical interface (e.g.
triggering of Bluetooth PAN profile), as asking for IA_PD at the moment of WAN
initialization would unnecessarily reserve prefixes by hosts never utilizing
those.
- 5.6. IPv6 over Ethernet and PPP are not the only
existing technologies and possibly more are coming, Maybe this chapter should be
generalized? Examples of other technologies are:
* RFC5121 Transmission of IPv6 via the IPv6
Convergence Sublayer over IEEE 802.16 Networks
* RFC3574 Transition Scenarios for 3GPP
Networks (which is somewhat incomplete now as 3GPP has made some rather
significant changes to bearer concepts since 2003)
- Could CPE router utilize RFC5006 on LAN and/or WAN
interfaces?
- Is stateless DHCPv6 server or DHCPv6 relay SHOULD or MUST
for CPE router to provide hosts in LAN with access to other configuration
parameters available from service provider's DHCPv6 server? I.e. not
just for reasons described in chapter 6.
- As several transition mechanisms are being worked on, the
8.6 should perhaps mention that DS-Lite is not the only mechanisms that may
cause this chapter to be updated.
If you wish, I can contribute text from cellular
perspectives.
Best regards,
Teemu
Thanks.
Hemant &
Wes