In your previous mail you wrote: > => please read the last update of RFC 3041 before to get things from > 3041 which are not in it... So I suppose there's draft, a pointer would help. Far from me any intention that you imply, sorry. => draft-ietf-ipngwg-temp-addresses-v2-00.txt
> => IMEI is unique according to 3GPP/ETSI standards. Ok, fact is that those future wireless phones things have not yet agreed among themselves who uses what as unique ID. This narrows the option of coding IMEIs into addresses to in fact coding IMEIs for 3GPP of ETSI into addresses. => I am not the ITU so I can't solve the issues between the 3GPP and the 3GPP2. Do you propose to wait they have merged (:-)? For me, the 3GPP/ETSI base is already enough. Ok, how about TMSI dynamically assigned by a VLR. Like an RCoA in an HMIPv6 domain. I guess it would not fit because it changes when moving into another geographical region. => exactly. Then how about MSISDN, whose correspondence with the IMSI is kept by the HLR. HLR is a sort of super-VLR, only one of them per operator (there are several VLRs per operator). MSISDN is not so private as IMSI, only HLR knows the correspondence. So one can consider it overcomes IMSI's limitations. => MSISDN is too large and is not an hardware ID. I think there's also MSRN but know nothing about it more than it's used for MSC-MSC communication. And I don't know what MSC means. => be serious, please! (BTW MSC=Mobile Switching Center) > => it seems the IMT2000 identifier would be the IMEI. Ah, some agreement, finally. => as I've said I am not the ITU (:-). Note though another difference between 802 id's and all those discussed above: the above identifiers identify the terminal itself, but not the other end of the communication at L2. I mean a base station has neither IMEI/IMSI/etc, and if it's identified by something it's certainly not the same kind of id as the one for the phone. => a base station is not a Mobile Equipment, does this matter? Regards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
