Brian, On Mar 31, 2011, at 11:10 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> I rather like the thought that each BMW will need its own BGP4 > advertisement. Boeing tried that for a while with airplanes, and > it didn't work out too well. BGP is overkill :-) I thought the problem with the Boeing service was largely financial, their BGP based technical solution did work. At least the number of commercial airplanes isn't too large a number. They could use a fixed car address and use mobile IPv6 with a provider based address. Bob > > Brian > > > On 2011-03-31 22:03, Roland Bless wrote: >> Hi Radek, >> >> On 30.03.2011 17:31, Radek Wróbel wrote: >>> Vehicle / mechanic engineers are working on a new On Board Diagnosis >>> standard for vehicles >>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics). Today EOBDv1 can >>> diagnose (quasi online) 849 failures. One of most important advantage of >>> EOBDv2 (but not only it) will be constant, real time communication with >>> service. The best way of them will be indyvidual number for every car >>> vehicles in the world. This number ought to cooporate with global >>> networking - TCP/IP (IPv6). All cars have indyvidual number - VIN >>> (17 characters which indicates on a country of production and mark of >>> the car: digits and letters A-X). Maybe there is time when someone must >>> think about conversion VIN to IPv6 (like it's in local IPv4)? I've a few >>> ideas about it and of course I can share them if you will be intersting in. >> >> There is already related work for this. >> You should be aware of a US Patent of 2005 "Method for Setting an >> Internet Protocol Address using a vehicle identification number". >> US 2005/0273505 A1, first hit >> http://www.google.com/patents?q=VIN+IPv6&btnG=Search+Patents >> (no comment on its usefulness here...) >> BMW has also recently filed a patent application with a VIN7 to IPv6 >> address mapping. >> It's not totally clear to me what _problem_ you want to solve. >> Depending on that several options exist. >> However, I share the concerns that Scott Brim already expressed in his >> mail. >> >> Regards, >> Roland >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> IETF IPv6 working group mailing list >> ipv6@ietf.org >> Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > ipv6@ietf.org > Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
