> I also have the notion that the current approach of combining the locator > and identifier in IPv4 and IPv6 has a lot of value that we tend to take for > granted. It provides a degree of authentication that requires lots of > cryptographic technology to replicate if they are separated. Instead of a > bug, I think it is a feature :-)
I have argued for years that this should be viewed as an engineering compromise rather than a design flaw. These days the prevailing view seems to be that it is a flaw, but the people who espouse that view haven't had to be the burden of actually making it work. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
