Re: new draft on IPv6 CPE router available for review

[Shin Miyakawa <miyakawa@nttv6.jp>]

From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Subject: Re: new draft on IPv6 CPE router available for review
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:16:45 +0200 (CEST)

> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Shin Miyakawa wrote:
> 
> > Even in this case, some software which is going to send a packet to the network
> > from CPE, according to RFC3484 "Default Address Selection for IPv6",
> > there is a certain reason why the WAN I/F's IP address should be used as
> > its source address like follows.
> >   ---------------- from RFC3484 ----------------
> >   It is RECOMMENDED that the candidate source addresses be the set of
> >   unicast addresses assigned to the interface that will be used to send
> >   to the destination.  (The "outgoing" interface.)  On routers, the
> >   candidate set MAY include unicast addresses assigned to any interface
> >   that forwards packets, subject to the restrictions described below.
> 
> What is the reason for this recommendation?

Let's wait for the RFC author's answer :-)

Shin Miyakawa