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

[Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>]

Hemant,

On 2009-03-27 03:55, Hemant Singh (shemant) wrote:
> James and Mark,
> 
> Did you see the security liaison sent to v6ops from the DSL Broadband
> Forums folks?  Fred Baker sent it out to the v6ops mailer this week.
> DSL is precisely discussing a fact that modems will have to go thru a
> default router rather than communicating directly to each other which is
> what you two are proposing.  I think we have to let the Broadband forum
> complete their IPv6 standards and then depending upon what they do, we
> can revisit this RFC 4191 question.  

If the broadband forum people don't want a use case with direct CPE-CPE
communication, that's their choice, but we shouldn't artificially
restrict this in the base spec for CPEs, IMHO. We write IPv6 basic
standards; they apply them to their use cases.

    Brian