Re: Vehicle's VIN in IPv6.

Roland Bless <roland.bless@kit.edu> Thu, 31 March 2011 09:02 UTC

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To: Radek Wróbel <radoslaw.wrobel@pwr.wroc.pl>
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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