Subject: RE: [DNA] REVIEW of draft-ietf-dna-network

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:24:28 +0300

>> >Why not simply have:
>> >
>> >    Link-Change: Link-Change occurs when a host moves from a
>> >       point-of-attachment on a given link to another
>> >       point-of-attachment on a different link.
>>
>> Your decription makes it sounds like there will be link-change every 
>> time you change AP - thats not true - only if change needs a new 
>> router to forward data to the old link. Our text is more precise in 
>> that sense, isn't it?
>
>Well, as I read my description it says that a link change 
>occurs when the node attach to a *different* link, it doesn't 
>says anything about changing APs. From an IP point of view if 
>you change APs but stay in the same DS under one router then 
>you're still on the same link.
>
>But anyway that's not so important.

Julien is technically correct, but it isn't a big deal.

>> >>  When a host solicits and attempts to schedule a multicast RA
>> >
>> >=>  When a host solicits and the router attempts to schedule a
>> >   multicast RA
>>
>> Our formulation seems good: it is indirectly that the host intends to

>> schedule a RA.
>
>Ok I got it. It might be clearer if explicitly written down: 
>"When a host solicits and attempts to make the router schedule 
>a multicast RA"

agree.

John