Maintenance of Mobile IPv6
Alexandru Petrescu <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.nemo |
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Hello, There are a few things that I think are needed for the maintenance of protocol Mobile IPv6; most important appear first: - help with automated portal authentication in WLAN. Hopping on and off from a WiFi hotspot to another, even without moving physically, is often obstructed by web portal authentication requiring user to type to fill forms; this is not only inconvenient, but in some cases it is impossible, like with vehicular networks where the driver is forbidden by law to type while behind the wheel. - bugs in an otherwise reliable Mobile IPv6 implementation of a particular equipment manufacturer (HA never deletes a tunnel, lifetime: remaining never): should the bugs be corrected or shoudl the spec modified to reflect what the implementation actually does? Should protocol workarounds be designed to deal with this problem? - future of the maintenance of the linux open source Mobile IPv6 implementation: just for my clarification - is it still ok? Is there some project behind it? Or is it dying? Currently the email list seems silent, and the latest software releases date back to more than one year. - elimination, or reducing the effect, of the necessity of the 'focal point' Home Agent: route optimization for the masses and for moving networks as deployed in vehicles. - Mobile IPv6 and IPv6 NAT Traversal; - IPv6 NAT in a moving network; - bypassing Mobile IPv6 implementation (and use IPv6 NATting) in cases of particular applications, based on destination IPv6 address and IPv6-only-when-reversed FQDN name. - the use of ULAs combined with Global addresses, with Mobile IPv6 (e.g. ULA HoA but GUA CoA, or reverse). What do you think? Alex