Re: Transport level multihoming

[Peter Tattam <peter@jazz-1.trumpet.com.au>]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, RJ Atkinson wrote:

> At 11:27 09/08/01, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> >Given that privacy considerations will force us to accept 
> >pseudo-random lower 64 bits, I don't think we can assume 
> >much of anything about those bits from the viewpoint of host identity.
> 
> Precisely so.  And they aren't merely pseudo-random, but
> instead pseudo-random with *high probability* of many duplicates,
> at least with the current specifications.
> 
> Ran
> 
> 
> 

Let us hope that duplicate discovery works properly then :)

Peter
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