Re: New issue 16: No packets from other end?

 In your previous mail you wrote:

   I needed some clarifications from MOBIKE veterans, before expressing 
   an opinion:
   
   What is the "other end" here?

=> you are at one side, the other end is the other.

   The mobile host? or the multihoming SGW?

=> you are narrowing the scope of MOBIKE without good reasons.
MOBIKE supports one or both ends mobile and/or multi-homed.
   
   Who initiates the MOBIKE protocol? I would guess:
   	(1) a mobile host after the move, needs to notify the remote SGW of
   	    its new address.
   	(2) a multihoming SGW, upon detecting that one of its interfaces
   	    (which was used to contact the mobile host) is down and it needs 
   	    to notify the mobile host of its new interface address to be used.
   
   Are there any other scenarios of how MOBIKE can be initiated?

=> many, for instance two multi-homed hosts, two multi-homed SGWs,
a mobile SGW, a multi-homed host, etc.

   When would
   we use the information that there is "lack of packets from the other end",
   to initiate the MOBIKE protocol?
   
=> IMHO this is not in the scope of the MOBIKE protocol so I can't give
an answer. But if this end knows alternate peer addresses of the other end,
obviously to try them seems a good idea...

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