Re: Vehicle's VIN in IPv6.

[Thierry Ernst <[e-mail]>]

>> 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.
This is what the intend to do:

  Slides presented at the ITU Fully Networked Car Workshop may be of 
interest to you.

  Convergence of car connectivity

Bernadette Villeforceix (Orange) and Stéphane Petti (Orange)

http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/oth/06/41/T06410000700002PDFE.pdf

Regards,
Thierry Ernst.
> 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
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