> 
>  In your previous mail you wrote:
> 
>    But the implications should IMHO be explored at some length first
>    (maybe write an I-D?).  Changing MAC addresses is going to cause
more
>    disruption on the roaming host in case of false positives, i.e.,
the
>    laptop thinks it moved but actually didn't, because the
communication
>    using the old MAC address and resulting IP addresses is going to be
>    disrupted unless you assume some kind of Neighbor Advertisement
>    message use ("gratuitous ARP").
> 
> => I have a concern here: this topic is clearly outside the scope of
> the IETF, i.e., it should be handled at the IEEE (in fact IMHO it is
> already handled by the IEEE :-).

Then how come this issue is discussed in this "I-D" (check the author
list
:-)

http://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-haddad-momipriv-problem-statement-
00.txt

Since IETF's ARP and ND deal with the MAC addresses, I think some
discussion on that is needed at IETF.

Alper





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