Re: [Fwd: Re: [MOBILE-IP] GRE mailing list]

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

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From: "Charles E. Perkins" <charliep@iprg.nokia.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, David Oran <oran@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [MOBILE-IP] GRE mailing list]
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:54:28 -0800
Message-ID: <38C952F4.C90AFC6D@iprg.nokia.com>


Hello Dave and Randy,

Would one of you folks be willing to forward my message to
the mailing list?  If I subscribe to another mailing list,
my pistons will melt.

Regards,
Charlie P.


Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> only subscribers may post
> 
> > Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 08:25:15 -0800
> > From: "Charles E. Perkins" <charliep@iprg.nokia.com>
> > Organization: Nokia Research Center
> > To: gre@ops.ietf.org
> > CC: David Oran <oran@cisco.com>
> > Subject: [Fwd: Re: [MOBILE-IP] GRE mailing list]
> >
> >
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > My experience with GRE is that it has a lot of features that
> > would not be needed for Mobile IP.  While I have not followed
> > the recent discussion, I note that existing GRE deployments
> > would probably _not_ handle any extensions.
> >
> > Thus, if needed functionality is going to be acquired by
> > new extensions, new GRE deployments would be needed.  So,
> > why shouldn't Mobile IP define the necessary tunneling
> > protocol that we need?
> >
> > I also note that the existing Minimal Encapsulation protocol
> > (RFC 2004) is a likely candidate revision to suit any additional
> > tunneling needs for Mobile IP.  There are reserved bits we
> > could use to control new features, and the existing deployment
> > of RFC 2004 is so small that obviously people don't like it
> > much anyway -- so it needs to be changed to be useful.
> >
> > I would rather implement a small tunneling protocol that does
> > exactly what Mobile IP needs, instead of a new protocol from
> > a big specification.  Is GREng likely to be a big one, or a
> > small one?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Charlie P.
> >
> >
> > Dave Oran wrote:
> > >
> > > In case any of you have missed it, there is now a dedicated mailing list to
> > > discuss possbile future enhancements to and progression beyond proposed
> > > standard for GRE.
> > >
> > > The list is
> > >         gre@ops.ietf.org
> > >
> > > subscribe via mail to gre-request@ops.ietf.org
> > >
> > > Please join in there so that we can get all the various Working Group
> > > requirements and interests exposed in one place.
> > >
> > > Thanks, Dave Oran
> >
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