Re: [RRG] Mobility in the future -- civil aviation mobility

[Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>]

On Dec 6, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Fleischman, Eric wrote:

> One may debatably want to do it for non-security or non-safety  
> reasons such as consistency or
> performance (e.g., an ATM study has tentatively concluded that  
> there are performance reasons to use VPN).

If one is using some sort of compression scheme, maybe.  Whether any  
purported benefits outweigh path agility via MANET-type ad hoc  
connectivity is of course a whole other discussion.

At any rate, this group should not assume that VPN-type traffic  
engineering technology is being used to aggregate the traffic to/from  
large numbers of mobile nodes in transit.

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