RE: [DNA] QUESTION: Remove Link Down information indraft-ietf-dna-link-information-03

[Alper Yegin <alper.yegin@yegin.org>]

Hi James,

Can you expand on that a bit more? It sounds like you are suggesting there
are L2 technologies and architectures that can secure link up but not link
down? Otherwise link up would be as harmful as link down is.

Alper




> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Kempf [mailto:kempf@docomolabs-usa.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 9:19 AM
> To: suresh.krishnan@ericsson.com; Dna
> Cc: greg Daley; Bernard Aboba; Jari Arkko (JO/LMF); Alper Yegin
> Subject: Re: [DNA] QUESTION: Remove Link Down information in draft-ietf-
> dna-link-information-03
> 
> I'm fine with this. The history of Link Down in IETF is that nobody has
> ever
> figured out a way to allow it to be done securely. I hope that we can
> record
> this somewhere (maybe an RFC "Link Down Considered Harmful"? from the IAB)
> so people stop wasting time on it.
> 
>             jak
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Suresh Krishnan" <suresh.krishnan@ericsson.ca>
> To: "Dna" <dna@eng.monash.edu.au>
> Cc: "greg Daley" <gregd@research.panasonic.com>; "Bernard Aboba"
> <aboba@internaut.com>; "Jari Arkko (JO/LMF)" <jari.arkko@ericsson.com>;
> "Alper Yegin" <alper.yegin@yegin.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 3:57 PM
> Subject: [DNA] QUESTION: Remove Link Down information in
> draft-ietf-dna-link-information-03
> 
> 
> > Hi Folks,
> >   In its current form draft-ietf-dna-link-information-03 provides
> > information about both link up and link down events. There were some
> > concerns raised about the presence of link down events in this document,
> > since DNA does not necessarily use the link down event. So instead of
> > spending time to understand how to treat this event in this WG, one
> > proposed solution was to remove link down related info from this
> document
> > and let other wgs(perhaps future ones) work on it. If you have any
> > opposition to this solution please respond to the mailing list by the
> 24th
> > of July 2006 stating your objection.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Suresh and Greg
> >
>