Missed your mail, Pekka otherwise I wouldn't try make the same point. On 21-11-2002 13:56PM, "Pekka Savola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.) 48 bits MAC is not globally unique (found that out the hard way). But hashing several MACs on the links of a disconnected sites toghere with a timestamp will do I guess. Arien -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
