Re: re-charter text updated

Hi, Sri,

Sri Gundavelli (sgundave) wrote:
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> On 3/20/14 5:54 AM, "Peter McCann" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> I think our extensions should be to the prefix information option and
>> not DHCP.
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>> The properties of an address may change after a handover and we should
>> not couple the DHCP state machine (which is about lease renewal) to the
>> handover state machine.
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> Hi Pete,
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> This is a good comment. If we are making any assumption that even
> after a handover, the DHCP transactions are still hitting the same
> DHCP server node, this may be a valid concern. But, if DHCP
> transactions are locally terminated after handover (Ex: RFC5844/MAG),
> then the updated properties can be provided as part of the new DHCP
> transaction. Some parameters such as MTU settings do change after an
> handover and so we can probably agree that address properties can change as well.
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> Regards
> Sri

I really don't think we should force DHCP to re-run on every handover.  I thought
one of the motivations for network-based mobility was to minimize the signaling
to the MN during handover.

-Pete