It seems the MNID is somehow overloaded to carry both, node-specific IDs, e.g. 
MAC, as well as subscriber IDs, which is the IMSI.
There may be value in adding the IMEI to the list of possible types of 
node-specific IDs. 

marco

>-----Original Message-----
>From: dmm [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sri Gundavelli
>(sgundave)
>Sent: Dienstag, 9. September 2014 23:30
>To: Sri Gundavelli (sgundave); Charlie Perkins; [email protected]
>Cc: Vijay Devarapalli
>Subject: Re: [DMM] regarding the re-chartering..
>
>Two more comments.
>
>
>
>4.) I'd also use sub-type value of (2) for IMSI. Just to align with the 
>sub-types
>defined for MN Id defined for ICMP. I suspect there are some implementations
>already using sub-type (2). Please see the other thread.
>
>
>5.) For each of the sub-types, we need text including examples and some
>explanation on how they are used.
>
>
>Sri
>
>
>
>On 9/9/14 2:20 PM, "Sri Gundavelli (sgundave)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Hi Charlie,
>>
>>This is good. Thanks.
>>
>>
>>1.) If EUI-48 and EUI-64 addresses are derived of a 48-bit IEEE 802.2
>>address, why do we need to two sub-types ? Why not have just one
>>sub-type for mac based identifiers ?
>>
>>2.) Sub type value (1) is currently used. Its currently overloaded for
>>IMSI-NAI (3GPP specs) and generic NAI based identifiers. Given the
>>definition of new sub-types, we need some text explaining the
>>motivation
>>
>>3.) Proposed Sub-type value of (2) for IPv6 address. What exactly is
>>this ? Are these CGA-based IPv6 addresses ?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>                     New Mobile Node Identifier Types
>>
>>               +-----------------+------------------------+
>>               | Identifier Type | Identifier Type Number |
>>               +-----------------+------------------------+
>>               | IPv6 Address    | 2                      |
>>               |                 |                        |
>>               | IMSI            | 3                      |
>>               |                 |                        |
>>               | P-TMSI          | 4                      |
>>               |                 |                        |
>>               | EUI-48 address  | 5                      |
>>               |                 |                        |
>>               | EUI-64 address  | 6                      |
>>               |                 |                        |
>>               | GUTI            | 7                      |
>>               +-----------------+------------------------+
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Regards
>>Sri
>>PS: Good to see Vijay back
>>
>>
>>On 9/9/14 1:28 PM, "Charlie Perkins" <[email protected]>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Hello folks,
>>>
>>>Here's the last Internet Draft that we did, long ago expired:
>>>http://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-perkins-mext-4283mnids-01.txt
>>>
>>>I'll resubmit it with a few updates as a personal draft to dmm.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Charlie P.
>>
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