Hi,
There seems to be some discrepancies about the MEXT charter item
regarding the work on flow bindings.
Since the charter is the guide for our work, it would be
important to
clarify it, so we can have a unified interpretation of the charter.
Please note that what it is in the charter is not cast in stone,
but
it seems to reflect previous consensus and we need good reasons to
change it.
So, the current charter item about flow bindings reads:
- A "Flow/binding policies exchange" solution for an exchange of
policies from the mobile host/router to the Home Agent and from the
Home Agent to the mobile host/router influencing the choice of the
Care-of Address and Home Agent address. The solution involves two
specifications, one for the policy format and another for its
transport [both Standard Track].
The first problem with this text is the use and interpretation of
the
word policy. Since the policy word may have a broad interpretation.
it would be important to make the charter more explicit about the
expected work. We understand that it is the WG consensus that what
need to be exchanged is a solution for the exchange of flow binding
rules.
So, we understand that it would be more explicit to replace the
usage
of the expression Flow/binding policies exchange by Flow Binding
rules exchange. Would that reflect with the WG interpretation?
Second, the current charter item explicitly mentions that the
proposed approach must support sending flow binding information
from
the MN to the HA and also from the HA to the MN. Moreover, the
current charter talks about influencing not only the selection of
the
CoA but also the selection of the HA address. However, our
current WG
document does not supports sending information from the HA and it
does not cover the possibility of influencing the HA address. So,
one
possible interpretation of the charter would be that the MN sends
flow binding information to influence the CoA selection and the HA
sends flow binding information to influence the HA address
selection.
Other interpretation is that both the MN and the HA send
information
regarding both the HA address and the CoA selection.
So, we would like that the WG express their opinion on both items
mentioned above:
1- whether we should replace Flow/binding policies exchange by Flow
Binding rules exchange in the charter
2- whether the information should be sent from the MN to the HA
only
or it should also be sent from the HA to the MN and if the
information exchanged in each direction should affect the CoA and/
or
the HA address.
Regards, Julien and marcelo
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