Subject: RE: Next steps on Reserving bits in RFC 2473 Interface IDs?

From: "Hesham Soliman (ERA)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 01:44:40 +0100

> 
> So I try something else than IMEI: IMSI.  As IMEI is for phones, IMSI
> is in the SIM cards.  Is the IMSI private?  Is it unique?

IMSI is very unique, but alas very private. That should never be shown outside the mobile network. (IMSI=International Mobile Subscriber Identification, if I remember correctly.)

=> Yeah, IMSI identifies users/subscribers, so it's
definitely not a good idea to put it into the IP
address.

Hesham
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