Re: [AVTCORE] WG last call on draft-ietf-avtcore-6222bis-01

Steve Underwood <steveu@coppice.org> Mon, 25 March 2013 23:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: [AVTCORE] WG last call on draft-ietf-avtcore-6222bis-01
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On 03/26/2013 04:00 AM, Ali C. Begen (abegen) wrote:
> Thanks for the review.
>
> On Mar 25, 2013, at 5:07 PM, "Magnus Westerlund" <magnus.westerlund@ericsson.com> wrote:
>
>> WG & Authors,
>>
>> I have reviewed this document as an individual and have the following
>> comments:
>>
>> 1. Section 4.2, second bullet:
>>
>>       To produce a short-term persistent RTCP CNAME, an RTP endpoint
>>       MUST either (a) use the numeric representation of the layer-2
>>       (Media Access Control (MAC)) address of the interface that is used
>>       to initiate the RTP session as the "host" part of its RTCP CNAME
>>       or
>>
>> Is using the MAC really that unique? In these days of MAC cloning is
>> this good enough to use as long term persistent CNAME identifier? I also
> The probability of clash is pretty small but we can make a note of this.
>
That depends on the platform. If you use the MAC address on a virtual 
machine it always clashes, as it always appears to be zero.

Steve