[Hipsec] (not) using HITs as an application identifier

[[e-mail] (Henderson, Thomas R)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julien Laganier [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 8:06 AM
> To: marcelo bagnulo braun
> Cc: Henderson, Thomas R; [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: [Hipsec] (not) using HITs as an application identifier
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> Hi Marcelo,
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> On Thursday 15 July 2004 16:07, marcelo bagnulo braun wrote:
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> > > I think we mostly agree. My main disagreement was on the scope of
> > > the change. You are proposing a HIP-wide change whereas I propose
> > > a referral-application-wide change.
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> > But, how do you know if the app is planning to do a refferal or
> > not?
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> The administrator knows.=20
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> For example I know that FTP uses referrals.=20
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> An heuristic for finding them might be: Does it breaks with NATs?=20
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I don't really know how I would distinguish between referral aps=20
and non-referral apps from within the kernel, or how to wrap them=20
as you mentioned.  Perhaps I don't fully understand.

Anyway, for those interested more on this topic, a new I-D was
just announced to multi6 group and ietf-announce:

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts =
directories.


	Title		: Considerations on HIP based IPv6 multi-homing
	Author(s)	: P. Nikander, T. Henderson
	Filename	: draft-nikander-multi6-hip-01.txt
	Pages		: 30
	Date		: 2004-7-15
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A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-nikander-multi6-hip-01.txt


Changelog:

   Changes between this version (-01) and -00 draft

      - added Section 2.6 comparing HIP with other group F multi6
      proposals

      - added Section 3.3 describing how HIP could be possibly changed
      to include routable AIDs

      - updated references to HIP WG and HIP RG (Section 1.2)

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