[147972] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Soucy)
Wed Dec 28 20:13:49 2011
In-Reply-To: <4EFBB03F.4090301@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:12:56 -0500
From: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I would like to understand how you think RA is broken, and how you
think that it could be improved.
You have made some bold statements, but we lack the context to
understand their meaning.
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Masataka Ohta
<mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote:
> Ray Soucy wrote:
>
>> After reading some of your work on end-to-end multihoming, I think I
>> understand some of what you're trying to say. =A0My problem is that
>> while you seem to have a very strong academic understanding of
>> networking, you seem to be ignoring operational realities in
>> implementation.
>
>
> To your surprise, my opinion is partially based on my
> experience about 10 years ago as a CTO of a commercial
> ISP, which offered secure public WLAN service with IP
> moblity.
>
> Security and mobility stacks were implemented on BSD and
> Windows.
>
> We successfully performed smooth handover experiment at a
> racing circuit with a car moving at 260km/h.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://www.root-hq.com/newsrelease/news030513.html
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(in Japanese)
>
> which is why I know delay caused by SLAAC is annoying.
>
> Though no commercial IPv6 service was offered, we received
> government funding and implemented end to end multihoming
> with mobility over IPv6 without ND. Public trial was offered:
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://www.root-hq.com/e/newsrelease/pressrels0218.html
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(in English)
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Masataka Ohta
--=20
Ray Soucy
Epic Communications Specialist
Phone: +1 (207) 561-3526
Networkmaine, a Unit of the University of Maine System
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