Re: [Mip4] regional registration draft

["Jee J.Z." <jz105@york.ac.uk>]

Hi Niko,

I think this is for the MN to choose a closest anchor point to send a
regional registration request next time.

Cheers,
Jee

----- Original Message -----
From: "Niko A. Fikouras" <niko@comnets.uni-bremen.de>
To: <mip4@ietf.org>
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 2:43 PM
Subject: [Mip4] regional registration draft


> Hi all,
>
> I have a question on the regional registrations draft
> (draft-ietf-mobileip-reg-tunnel-07.txt). According to Appendix Section
> "B.1. Registration with Home Agent" (p.32-33), a foreign agent may have
> to include in its agent advertisements the addresses of all mobility
> agents (RFAs, GFAs) in its hierarchy branch.  I would like to know what
> the reason is behind this action, because considering a MIP hierarchy
> with several levels then agent advertisements may acquire a significant
> size. Moreover, considering that foreign agents may have to increase
> their advertisement period in order to accelrate MIP hand-offs, then the
> transmission of agent advertisements of some size may result in a
> significant overhead with an effect to network efficiency.
>
> Thanks in advance
> niko
>
>
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