RE: WG next steps

["Hesham Soliman (EAB)" <hesham.soliman@era.ericsson.se>]

  > I will repeat what I said before that I think that any 
  > solution that involves
  > crypto of any kind needs to be carefully thought through 
  > from the point of view
  > of CPU resources on end hosts.  While the traditional 
  > mobile host end points
  > probably don't care too much, for a general solution that 
  > would involve large
  > servers with thousands of connections, the MH solution must 
  > be low cost in such
  > an environment.

=> I am always reminded that mobile devices are power-constrained ;)
I agree that we need to be careful with this, but I don't 
think it will be a show stopper.

  > 
  > The edge router solution is not a complete solution either 
  > as has been alluded
  > to.  There will be instances where an end host may be 
  > connected to two paths,
  > neither knowing much about each other (e.g. cable, dsl and 
  > modem in a home
  > network).
  > 
  > Sounds to me like the only solution that will fly will be 
  > an E2E solution.

=> Makes sense.

Hesham

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