Re: Call for RFC 3041 Implementation Reports

[Brian Haberman <brian at innovationslab.net>]

Sorry for the delay in response...

On Aug 25, 2005, at 0:59, JINMEI Tatuya / ¿ 癆 明達哉 wrote:

> > > > > > On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 05:20:25 -0400,
> > > > > > Brian Haberman <brian at innovationslab.net> said:
>
> >       As mentioned during the IPv6 WG meeting, the chairs are 
> > soliciting
> > implementation reports for IPv6 Privacy Addresses in support of moving
> > the spec
> > to Draft Standard.  The following template should be used for 
> > submitting
> > these implementation reports.  The reports can be sent to the chairs
> > and/or
> > the mailing list.
>
> (snip)
>
> >       6. Tested Interoperability by Feature:
>
> >            A. Lifetime Management (Section 3.4)
>
> >            B. DAD Operation (Section 3.2)
>
> I'm not sure what "interoperability" should be reported about
> those...as far as I understand, these are only a matter of the host
> using RFC3041, and I don't see any "interoperability" issue here.
> Could you clarify the required information?

I was envisioning a validation that the node using RFC 3041 addresses
perform DAD for those addresses and peers cannot detect any
differences in messaging/processing.

> Regarding DAD, which specification should be the base of the report,
> RFC3041 or draft-ietf-ipv6-privacy-addrs-v2-04.txt?  (The behavior on
> this is very different between these two versions of the spec).

These are implementation reports for 3041, so the basis should be
the RFC.

> In either case, I suspect "Section 3.2" should actually be "Section
> 3.3" (more specifically, Step 7 of Section 3.3).  In fact, neither
> RFC3041 or privacy-addrs mentions DAD in Section 3.2 as a part of the
> protocol specification.


Correct.  My mistake in typing the message.

Regards,
Brian

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