Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

2012/3/15 Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>:
> William Herrin wrote:
> > > I know non-IP mobile environment is heavily encumbered. So, I
> > > can understand why you insist on using DNS for mobility only
> > > to make IP mobility as encumbered as non-IP ones.
> >
> > I don't understand your statement. None of the technologies I work
> > with use the word "encumbered" in a comparable context. Perhaps you
> > could rephrase?
>
> OK. You are bell headed.

If you want to be snippy in English, you should first gain a better
command of the language. Neither of your previous statements has a
meaning recognized beyond the confines of your own brain.


> > Your set and his set are both in
> > motion so there _will_ be times when your address set changes before
> > he can tell you the changes for his set. Hence #1 alone is an
> > _incomplete_ solution.
>
> A difficulty to understand the end to end principle is to
> properly recognize ends.
>
> Here, you failed to recognize home agents as the essential
> ends to support reliable communication to mobile hosts.

A device which relays IP packets is not an endpoint, it's a router. It
may or may not be a worthy part of a network architecture but it is
unambiguously not an endpoint.

If that isn't clear to you then don't presume to lecture me about the
end to end principle.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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