On Thu, 15 Sep 2016, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
5206-bis specifies how to user RVS for the 'double-jump' mobility problem.
3.2.3 1) says:
1. The mobile host sending an UPDATE to the peer, and not receiving an ACK,
MAY resend the UPDATE to a rendezvous server (RVS) of the peer, if such a
server is known.
But it DOES know there is an RVS IF the I1 had FROM and RVS_HMAC parameters
and it had created a VIA_RVS parameter to send in the R1.
Yes, but the responder may not know the initiator's RVS even if the the
responder's RVS was used, and it also may be the case that neither host's RVS
was involved in the session setup.
This VIA_RVS provides the knowledge and locator of the peer's RVS.
In fact an aggressive mobility UPDATE would be sent simultaneously to the
host and its RVS. If the host had not moved itself, it gets both and drops
the one from the RVS.
I believe that Baris Boyvat on the InfraHIP project was looking a while back at
such an approach to fast mobility; it was called 'shotgun' approach to mobility
and multihoming (try all candidates simultaneously), if I remember correctly.
This comment recommends changes to 5204-bis 4.2.3 that the main goal of
VIA_RVS is to facilitate support for the double-jump mobility problem and
secondarily "to allow operators ...".
And to 5206-bis section 3.2.3 to use the VIA_RVS to 'know' that there is an
RVS for the host and to optionally aggressively send HIP mobility UPDATES to
the RVS.
It seems to me that we ought to state that hosts should be prepared to handle
duplicate mobility updates sent in parallel to different locators (such as to
RVS(es) and to more than one of the host's addresses). We could also state
that the aggressiveness of a host replicating its UPDATES to multiple
destinations, to try them in parallel instead of serially, is a policy choice
outside of the specification. Any other comments on this possible change?
- Tom
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