Re: Revised agenda for: MIP4 - Mobility for IPv4 BOF

Alper Yegin <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Jul 2003 11:41:19 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.mobileip
Message-ID <BB38475F.513C%[email protected]>
> Let the industry decide which one of the multiple ways will survive. Let's not
> restrict ourselves to one solution and hope it is the best we can ever get.

Mobile IP protocol is for carrying IP-layer mobility signaling and related
information. It is not a generic host configuration protocol. So, carrying
any config information over this protocol is not justified. Saying but "we
are already doing Mobile IP" opens the door for carrying *any parameter*
over *any protocol that runs between the host and access network*. Does this
make sense? 

On the other hand, there might be some functional overlap between protocols
due to some historical or exceptional reasons. But I don't think this gives
us a free ticket to do whatever we like.

My 0.02 cents.

Alper