Re: radical solutions

[Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>]

Sean Doran wrote:
...
> (However, I was tempted to wonder why the DNS itself (with different
> roots & classes), or something DNS-like but with a different,
> perhaps Thaler/Ravishankar style, distributed hierarchy, couldn't
> form part of the routing system.  Is there any reason why a DNS-like
> distributed database couldn't be as dynamic as the current IDR scheme?

This seems to be what Guruprasad is aiming at, but I don't think
he has all the operational considerations covered. He assumes
that the problems simply can't be solved at the IP level, which
is what we seem to be trying to do here.

   Brian