Re: radical solutions

[Ben Black <ben@layer8.net>]

I don't believe the proposed charter restricts us to pure IP layer
solutions.  I would hope anything to be fair game, if it can be shown
to work (where "work" includes factors such as operational and technical
feasibility).


Ben

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:22:06AM -0600, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 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
> 
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