Re: [hiprg] host identifiers in Back to My Mac (BTMM) service

jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Mon, 05 April 2010 18:20 UTC

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    > From: "Henderson, Thomas R" <thomas.r.henderson@boeing.com>

    > BTTM chose to use IPv6 ULAs instead of HITs as the host identifiers;
    > section 6.2 discusses the rationale.

Interesting - thanks for the pointer. I didn't quite understand this part:

  For HIP .. we still lack a secure way to retrieve the host ID.

but perhaps if I understood more about BTMM I'd understand why.

	Noel