> -----Original Message----- > From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Joel Jaeggli > Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 11:05 AM > To: Melinda Shore > Cc: 'IAB'; 'IETF Discussion Mailing List' > Subject: Re: Comment on draft-iab-ipv6-nat-00 > > Melinda Shore wrote: > > Scott Brim wrote: > >> I was asking how the site knows when its hosts peers have > been upgraded, > >> so that it can allow their traffic to be routed out > multiple interfaces. > > > > Yeah, exactly, although the canonical Unix-y way to > > do this would be to try it and see what you get back. > > If it doesn't work, catch the error and fall back to > > whatever it is you've planned to fall back to. > > There are obvious problems with this in a network > > environment (latency, resource consumption) but it's > > already how the IETF has chosen to deal with NAT > > traversal (ICE) so I expect there's a reasonable > > question about whether or not connectivity tests can > > (or should) be extended to transport, etc.. > > Yeah because resource reservation and and capability negotiation are > definitely thing we want to have to do on an IP network before > initiating a connection. ICE does not perform resource reservation and ICE does not perform capability negotiation. -d > > Melinda > > _______________________________________________ > > Ietf mailing list > > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf