interface identifier (was: [Sis-csi] No call today)

[Marc Blanchet]

Le 06-12-22 à 20:40, Ivancic, William D. (GRC-RCN0) a écrit :

> Marc,
>
> If one is speaking global addressing you are correct.  However, we  
> are speaking link-local addressing

of course, that was the thread. So I guess I did not understand what  
Lloyd was referring to for "an allocated IPv6 space". link-local is a  
defined allocated IPv6 space: fe80::

Marc.

> where anything goes so long as you are not using someone else's  
> link-local address (oh yeah - don't forget security - that always   
> messes up what looked like a good solution!)
>
>
> Will
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Marc Blanchet [mailto:marc.blanchet at viagenie.ca]
>> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 1:59 PM
>> To: Lloyd Wood
>> Cc: Ivancic, William D. (GRC-RCN0); Keith Hogie; Mezu,
>> Okechukwu A. (GRC-RCN0); sis-csi at mailman.ccsds.org
>> Subject: Re: interface identifier (was: [Sis-csi] No call today)
>>
>> 'f
>> Le 06-12-22 à 13:41, Lloyd Wood a écrit :
>>
>>> At Thursday 21/12/2006 14:18 -0600, Ivancic, William D. \(GRC-RCN0
>>> \) wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> If one wanted to go throught the trouble, I guess one
>> could specify a
>>>> standardized mechanism for CCSDS for configuring unique link local
>>>> IPv6 addressed based on Spacecraft ID of some other space-unique
>>>> identifier.
>>>
>>>
>>> What would it take to produce a unique address from GSCID,
>> interface
>>> identification
>>
>> a document that describes that.
>>
>>> and (presumably) an allocated IPv6 space?
>>
>> you meant address space for the network part? currently, you
>> get it from your upstream provider or directly from the
>> registries. Of course, in the process of planning a
>> deployment, address space would have to be looked up, but I'm
>> not sure that needs to be taken care in the ccsds "protocol" profile.
>>
>> Marc.
>>
>>>
>>> L.
>>

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