On 8 aug 2008, at 14:40, Steven Blake wrote:
Maybe we should simply deprecate identifiers. After all, I know who I am and you know who you are, and the packets get there through the locators. And if identity is really necessary, higher layers can manage it (TLS etc).
If I understand what you have in mind, this solution would look like shim6(i.e., host has multiple addresses, each with different IIDs).
The interface identifiers are derived from a hash that is the same for all addresses with HBA so even though they may be different, they do have a verifiable relationship. (It would have been easier if they were all the same for the purposes of rewriting the top 64 bits of the address.)
Please correct me if I am wrong, but shim6 does not support either (1) mobility
No.
or(2) transparent (to transport layer) stateless network locator translation, correct?
Not sure what you mean by that. If the question is "will shim6 work through NAT" then the answer is "no".
I can imagine how shim6 could be made to work for mobility, but I can'timagine how it can be made to work with network locator translation, without turning it into an 8+8 scheme.
shim6 is what you get when you start with 8+8 and add the things that are missing that are needed to make it useful and deployable. You could consider shim6 to be a form of "16+16".
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