Re: Advantages and disadvantages of using CB64 type of identifiers

Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.multi6
Organization IBM
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Christian Huitema wrote:
>>Do you think that generating a new identifier every day would do the
>>trick?
> 
> 
> No, I don't think so. It would break correlation in time, but it would
> still enable correlation in space, as in "these two locators lead to the
> same location". That may or may not be a problem for *site* multihoming,
> but it definitely is a problem for *host* multihoming, e.g. a host with
> a WiFi and a GPRS connection.

Some might consider it a solution, not a problem. For example I can
imagine it helping to meet "911" requirements (an emergency VoIP call
arrives via WiFi, but back-tracking to GPRS gives better automatic
geolocation).

    Brian
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