On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Fred L. Templin wrote: > This is very close to the use case I referred to at the microphone > during the Thursday session in San Francisco when I spoke of > intermittently-connected networks. Take for example an ad-hoc/mesh > network that travels together and may from time to time lose connection > with the global Internet; perhaps reconnecting at a different point > of attachment at some later time. While detached, the nodes in the > intermittently-connected network should still be able to communicate > with one another. But, when reconnecting to a different point of > attachment, ongoing intra-network communications should not be > impacted by monolithic renumbering events. [...]
This case could work if you just use addresses with a lifetime long enough to survive the disconnection (and deprecate the addresses immediately when you reconnect and start using new ones). It's bit of a hack, and details have to be worked out to see if there are any gaps in this (one is that you can't deprecate an address faster than 2 hours unless IPsec is used). -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
