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Separating Identifiers and Locators in Addresses: An Analysis of the GSE Proposal for IPv6
draft-ietf-ipngwg-esd-analysis-05

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (ipngwg WG)
Expired & archived
Authors Lixia Zhang , Allison J. Mankin , John W. Stewart III , Dr. Thomas Narten , Dr. Matt Crawford
Last updated 1999-10-19
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Abstract

On February 27-28, 1997, the IPng Working Group held an interim meeting in Palo Alto, California to consider adopting Mike O'Dell's 'GSE - An Alternate Addressing Architecture for IPv6' proposal [GSE]. In GSE, 16-byte IPv6 addresses are split into distinct portions for global routing, local routing and end-point identification. GSE includes the feature of configuring a node internal to a site with only the local routing and end-point identification portions of the address, thus hiding the full address from the node. When such a node generates a packet, only the low-order bytes of the source address are specified; the high-order bytes of the address are filled in by a border router when the packet leaves the site.

Authors

Lixia Zhang
Allison J. Mankin
John W. Stewart III
Dr. Thomas Narten
Dr. Matt Crawford

(Note: The e-mail addresses provided for the authors of this Internet-Draft may no longer be valid.)