RE: Issue 20: How to identify MNs with private addresses

Hi James,

This sounds reasonable to me.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext James Kempf [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 16 September, 2003 18:59
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Seamoby] Issue 20: How to identify MNs with private 
> addresses
> 
> 
> Summary: CTP utilizes the MN's previous IP address to 
> uniquely identify the
> MN. If the previous IP address was behind a separate NAT, 
> then there could
> be a conflict.
> 
> See http://danforsberg.info:8080/draft-ietf-seamoby-ctp/issue20 for a
> detailed description.
> 
> Possible resolutions:
> 
> 1) Use something other than the previous IP address to 
> identify the MN.
> 2) Clarify how CTP interacts with NATs.
> 3) Keep the current text, note in the text that additional 
> work is required
> before CTP will work with nonglobal scope addresses.
> 
> Suggsted resolution: 3
> Justification: Figuring out how CTP works with NATs is likely to be
> difficult and time consuming (ex. the Mobile IPv4/NAT 
> interaction), and
> might even require a separate document. The spec should be 
> kept simple until
> there is compelling deployment justification.
> 
> Comments?
> 
>             jak
> 
> 
> 
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