Re: draft-wbeebee-ipv6-cpe-router-04 comments

[james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com>]

On Mar 23, 2009, at 18:28, Ole Troan wrote:
> iff you wanted to make ND into a routing protocol using MSRs, I  
> believe you would have to change RFC4191. and possibly the main ND  
> spec, as routers doesn't listen to ND.

I only see a requirement in RFC 4294 (and draft-ietf-6man-node-req- 
bis-02) to send RS and process received RA at hosts.  There is no  
language that says routers MUST NOT send RS and process received RA,  
as draft-wbeebee-ipv6-cpe-router describes.

You have a point about RFC 4191 perhaps needing to be amended.  It  
describes MSR as a router-to-host protocol and not a router-to-node  
protocol.  This strikes me as an oversight that should be corrected.   
I see no technical reason that only hosts and not all nodes should be  
permitted to process MSR messages.


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james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com>
member of technical staff, communications engineering