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. >> >>_______________________________________________ >>dmm mailing list >>[email protected] >>https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmm > >_______________________________________________ >dmm mailing list >[email protected] >https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmm _______________________________________________ dmm mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmm
