Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-crocker-mast-proposal-00.txt

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:31:40 -0400

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	Title		: Multiple Address Service For Transport (MAST):An 
                          Extended Proposal
	Author(s)	: D. Crocker
	Filename	: draft-crocker-mast-proposal-00.txt
	Pages		: 0
	Date		: 2003-8-29
	
Classic Internet transport protocols use a single source IP
address and a single destination IP address, as part of the
identification for an individual data flow.  TCP includes
these in its definition of a connection and its calculation
of the header checksum.  Hence the transport service is tied
to a particular IP address pair. This is problematic for
multi-homed hosts and for mobile hosts.  Both have multiple
IP addresses but cannot use more than one, for any single
transport association (context).  Multiple Address Service
for Transport (MAST) defines a mechanism that transparently
supports association of multiple IP addresses with any
transport association.  It requires no change to the IP
infrastructure, and no change to IP modules or transport
modules in the end-systems. Instead, it defines a wedge
layer between IP and transport that operates only in the end
systems and affects only participating hosts.

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