Subject: Re: [MOBILE-IP] IPv6 handover document

From: Behcet Sarikaya <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 09:34:39 -0700

--- Francis Dupont <[email-masked]>
wrote:
Thanks Francis for providing the right insight at the
right time:

> => RAs are too expensive to build, too expensive to
> send, too expensive
> to process. In fact they are not designed for this
> role and a dedicated
> mechanism should be far better when a fast beacon is
> needed.
 if there is a good reason to use very
> special timings
> then there should be a good reason to build a
> dedicated/simpler/cheaper
> mechanism. Reuse is not perversion!

As we move in the direction of layer 3-ization of
handoffs, paging, etc. there seems to be a need for
designing a fast beacon mechanism.

--behcet

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Behcet Sarikaya
Univ. of Aizu
Aizu, Japan

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