Masataka Ohta wrote:
The important point is, however, that if the id/loc separation is done, the source address is not needed by the end-hosts any more. It is needed in the very first packet flowing in a direction, and perhaps in the second one, until the id->loc state is verified and established, but not after that.The Internet is connectionless. TCP is not IP, the Internet Protocol.
< Id -> locator > mapping / binding / whatever is state. --Pekka Nikander