|2/ an engineering judgment call of whether one could borrow MAC address | to serve the above purpose. | (this is similar to the existing TCP design of borrowing IP | address as part of TCP's connection ID) | |2/ represents an engineering tradeoff because the borrowing saves the |trouble of managing another new ID space.
2/ also creates a significant security issue. If a MAC address is visible outside of the local subnet, then it implies that someone can track a host as it migrates across the Internet. That's been widely discussed during the first iteration of GSE and pretty generally viewed as a Bad Idea. At the very least, there needs to be a mechanism to escape from the MAC address and jump to a separately assigned space. Tony -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
