On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Jari Arkko wrote: > > Take your name, address, phonenumber or whatever (it must be long enough, > > though), apply a hash function and BAM -- there you have "unique enough" > > site-id identifier. No need for any registrations etc. > > We still need to avoid user input for self-configuring home networks etc. > How about a hash of the IEEE MAC address of the node that created the > site?
Sure -- and take some other things in consideration. (I don't know whether MAC address in itself will provide enough material for a reliable hash, but I could see a possibility of it working.) -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
