Re: identity persistence and comparison issues

[Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU>]

Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> marcelo bagnulo braun wrote:
...
> > >  The endpoints are the only place that can or should know about 
> > > whether they change.
>
> This is a purist view of the Internet we used to have when RFC 1958
> was written... the current reality (RFC 2775) is that all these
> problems call for soft state solutions, that can be garbage collected
> as Marcelo says, and recreated if they are prematurely lost.

Soft state elsewhere is an optimization that relies on hard state at the 
endpoints for its recovery and recreation anyway. I.e., I don't see 
yours and Marcelo's views as inconsistent.

> (The tragedy of NATs is that they can't do the second bit reliably,
> and multi6 needs to avoid that problem.)
>
>     Brian

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature