On 14 Jun 2010, at 19:50 , Dae Young KIM wrote: > I'd rather use local ID, for then I could > eliminate one infrastructural element managing/governing/distributing > the global IDs.
There is no "management" needed for global-scope IDs. Similarly, there is no need to distribute them as they are normally built-in at the factory today (and for the past 20 years or so). Also, governance is equally not an issue. Pretty much every computing device anyone has today, even the hand-held ones, already have at least one IEEE EUI-64 in them, burned into ROM at the factory. This is one of the reasons that global-scope EUI-64 values are the ideal source of node Identity. If a device already has (for example -- this is NOT an exhaustive list) either a wired Ethernet port, a wireless Ethernet port, other IEEE 802.* port, Bluetooth port, or mobile telephone interface (CDMA or GSM), then the device already has its own EUI-64 (or most probably a few of EUI-64 values). Yours, Ran _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
