Tony Hain wrote: > > A single bit for authentication seems like weak authentication... ;) > > At any rate, you can't use truly random values in addressing and expect > to establish a trust based on that. At best you could have a > pseudo-random table that both ends are working from, but either that > table is well-known, or establishing it and maintaining synchronization > will be an operational nightmare. > > As for using an address without performing DAD, this is a *bad idea* in > general and fast-handoff is no excuse to avoid verifying that someone > else is not already using an address on the link (assigned or random). > If mip is that far off in the weeds we may need an AD to ask them to > revisit their charter.
two comments. These are individual proposals in the Mobile IP WG. and these people are being "encouraged" to take them up in the IPv6 WG rather than the Mobile IP WG. and Fast Handoffs for Mobile IPv6 does not say "dont do DAD". Vijay > > Tony -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
