Subject: [Hipsec] Splitting the COOKIE parameters

From: [email-masked] (Henderson, Thomas R)
Date: Wed Apr 21 12:08:00 2004

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mika Kousa [mailto:[email-masked]]=20
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 1:50 AM
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: RE: [Hipsec] Splitting the COOKIE parameters
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> By the way, why is Update ID now a 24 bit number as you=20
> proposed in your
> mail "hip-mm proposed revisions" a couple of days ago ? Why=20
> it should be
> changed from 16 bit to 24 bit ? This has the same issue as=20
> previous 96 bit
> vs. 64 bit. I wouldn't be so surprised if different handling of 24 bit
> number would cause some problems during the interops. Do you=20
> really see
> that there will be 2^96 UPDATEs in a short period of time or=20
> what was the
> reasoning behind moving to 24 bits ?

There is no particular reason-- just that the bits were available. =20
It could be 16 bits (or fewer).  But it shouldn't be an=20
interoperability issue whichever is decided-- it is easy to
implement.

Tom