Application design in a multiple IPv6 provisioning domains

Abstract

In IPv6 networks, hosts can have multiple IPv6 addresses per interface and have multiple interfaces. This means that the applications or the kernel must be able to select the right source address, especially when the network services can be linked to this source address. The IETF (Apple, Cisco and Google) are developing 'provisioning domains' to this effect, Cisco has put in the open source community Linux kernel patches to allow applications to select such 'provisioning domains'.

The goal of this Master thesis is to analyse the best ways for applications to select the provisioning domains (whether there is a human interaction or not), and write libraries and at least modify one interactive application exploiting this feature. The development must be done in Linux. Knowledge in Linux kernel development is required.