Caitlin Bestler wrote:
Current CM software could generate the Serive ID. Therefore
the fact that the Private Data is in the "new format" cannot
be part of the Service ID. Otherwise I agree with your analysis
that data can be moved to the Serivce ID. Which is more valuable,
4 more bytes of private data or a very larger number of Service
IDS, is another topic.
The CM would still need to know what range of service IDs can be generated. I
don't believe that the range can overlap with an existing range that is already
defined without needing to redefine service records and other items. The extra
bit in essence becomes a 65th bit for the service ID in such cases.
The additional 4 bytes of private data come at an expense of consuming something
like .0000006% of the service ID space.
To be clear, the CM REQ _carries_ the IP address. There
should be no requirement that the CM performs the mapping,
and I see no reason why it should even care.
The CM needs to have at least the capability of validating
the local IP address supplied.
Validation can be done outside of the CM in a separate module.
- Sean
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