@techreport{mccann-thema-00, number = {draft-mccann-thema-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mccann-thema/00/}, author = {Charles E. Perkins and Pat R. Calhoun and Tom Hiller and Alessio Casati and Jin Wang and Pete McCann}, title = {{Transparent Hierarchical Mobility Agents (THEMA)}}, pagetotal = 14, year = 1999, month = mar, day = 1, abstract = {For various reasons it may be desirable to separate the functionality of a mobility agent, such as the home and foreign agents in Mobile IP {[}Perkins96{]}, from their link-layer presence on a given network. This draft outlines mechanisms based on the Tunnel Establishment Protocol {[}Calhoun98a{]} for accomplishing this. The tunnels so established will not be visible to a mobile node and therefore provide a transparent way to build hierarchies of mobility agents, which can lessen the frequency of Mobile IP re- registrations.}, }