Re: [DNA-BOF] Attachment Detection charter text for discussion

[Jari Arkko <jari.arkko@kolumbus.fi>]

Brett Pentland wrote:
> Greg Daley wrote:
> 
>> "Network Attachment occurs when a host arrives on
>> a new IP subnet. When attaching to a network, a
> 
> 
> I'm not sure that "when a host arrives on a new subnet" is the
> correct way to define this.  Perhaps something along the lines of
> "when an interface becomes active on a link instance" with an
> appropriate definition of "link instance" in the terminology
> document.

Does this formulation require that the link layer
always be able to deliver up/down information to the
IP stack? I realize that for fast movements this is
probably a requirement anyway, but there may be
other cases where lack of hints could be tolerated.

--Jari