RE: [RRG] Re: Should the identifier be used as local locator

[<louise.burness@bt.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rrg@psg.com [mailto:owner-rrg@psg.com] On Behalf 
> Of Christian Vogt
> Sent: 09 July 2008 16:08
> To: Lixia Zhang
> Cc: rrg
> Subject: [RRG] Re: Should the identifier be used as local locator
> 
> > There are really two issues:
> > 1/ the need for a unique node ID
> > 2/ an engineering judgment call of whether one could borrow MAC 
> > address
> >   to serve the above purpose.
> >   (this is similar to the existing TCP design of borrowing IP
> >    address as part of TCP's connection ID)
> >
> > 2/ represents an engineering tradeoff because the borrowing 
> saves the 
> > trouble of managing another new ID space.
> 
> Right.  In addition, and perhaps more importantly, borrowing 
> also saves the managing and securing of a mapping between the 
> lower-layer ID and the upper-layer ID.
> 
> - Christian
> 

I am not sure I follow this bit - if I am a multi-homed terminal there
is not a simple 1-1 mapping

Louise

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