>Certainly, I would hate to be in a position where I can't talk to a local
>service because my home agent happens be to unreachable at the moment. But
>if the binding cache on the local server is working well enough to maintain
>the binding, and the mobile node sends a binding-update proactively with its
>SYN, then the home agent won't be needed. This should be the common case
>when the mobile node is initiating the communication.
This has been my implementation assumption and design center and the
deployment model for MIPv6. In fact I think when the coresponding app
speaks the mobile node this should be the default given the binding
update is current.
/jim
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