RE: runumbering (was: Re: IPv6: Past mistakes repeated?)

[ned . freed]

> > Turn it any way you want, TCP sessions can only survive renumbering through
> > end to end mechanisms...

> Which raises the interesting (to me anyway) question: Is there value in
> considering a new protocol, layered on top of TCP, but beneath new
> applications, that provides an "association" the life of which transcends
> the TCP transports upon which it is constructed?

> I believe that if we had such a protocol that it would be a useful tool to
> solve many of the juggling acts that transpire under the heading of
> "mobile networking" as well as providing a way to continue (or
> "resume") connectivity after IP address changes.

> (I will, of course, be suitably embarrassed if someone points out that
> work is already going on to do this.)

  draft-xie-stewart-sigtran-ddp-00.txt

                                ned