Re: [netlmm] Consensus call: Adopting draft-korhonen-netlmm-lma-discovery as a WG item

Not sure, if you guys cant merge and come out with a single
doc. Since, the issue is well defined, the specific approach
can be decided as part of this work. My 2c.

Sri

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Behcet Sarikaya wrote:

> Hi Ryuji,
>   Please see my replies below.
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> Regards,
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> I also read draft-xia-netlmm-lma-discovery-00.
> DHCP can be alternative approach to discovery LMA address.
> However AAA or L2 solutions seems to be much straightforward and light-weight approach.
> Are their any strong reasons to use DHCP for this specific function (LMA discovery)?
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> [behcet] The charter Item 6 is the answer, I think.
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> comments to Frank's document
> - In IPv4 support doc, we also uses DHCP for IPv4 address assignment.
> To design the DHCP parts, we tried not to introduces any PMIP specific states or data at the DHCP entity.
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> [behcet] As Frank said we are assuming something similar to (DS)MIPv6. I don't think a lot of state is needed, in most cases a single record would be enough.
> MAG access to DHCP is on the other hand is stateless which will probably make you happy.
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> DHCP-server just notify the IPv4 address to the DHCP client. The IPv4 address is always assigned by LMA.
> On the other hand, this document assumes DHCP server manages all the PMIP states such as LMA and home network prefix.
> We might need some interaction between PMIP and DHCP to keep protocol states consistency.
> [behcet] No not really, please see above. If several LMAs are in the same domain then a few more.
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> - This document assumes one DHCP server per PMIP domain, because DHCP relay has to be configured with the same DHCP server address.
> Is this reasonable assumption in terms of scalability and optimized management , etc. ?
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> [behcet] I agree with you on this. Please provide some text and help us improve the draft.
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> regards,
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> On 2009/04/28, at 17:10, Narayanan, Vidya wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> This is a consensus call to determine adoption of draft-korhonen-netlmm-lma-discovery as a WG item.  This relates to the LMA discovery work in our charter.
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>> Please respond on whether or not you support adoption of this draft as a WG item to the list by May 6th, 2009. Please note that this document would be a starting point for the work, if adopted and the current content in the draft is by no means final.
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>> Thanks,
>> Vidya
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