Not really relevant to your main point, but... On 4/12/09 1:36 AM, Tony Li wrote:
I don't much care how cleverly it's dressed up, it's still an overloading of the token space. That's not an unthinkable direction, but it should be done consciously, with care and forethought.
Just a historical note on this point. When the NSRG considered architectural separation of identifier and locator, Steve Deering made the point that, particularly at layer 4, there are at least weak security benefits from having the transport use the IP address as part of the pseudo-checksum.
What he was really saying, I think, with the benefit of some eight years of hindsight, was that there are indeed risks we must consider should we decouple things TOO much.
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