Re: Regionally aggregatable address space for multihoming

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On 8 Jun 2001, Sean Doran wrote:

> > But what about this: in stead of using individual routes, we could encode
> > routing information in bitmaps

> It would be nice if you would write up a draft proposing this.

Ok.

> There are theoretical strengths in map-exchange routing
> systems, and such systems benefit from well-designed
> packet-header encodings which express a path through a
> topology discovered through the exchange of maps among routers.

> Do you think that a scheme to encode physical-proximity
> can coexist with a scheme to encode topological-proximity?
> That could be a handy feature...

Do you mean both the physical and topological proximity of the same entity,
or just physical proximity for some entities and topological proximity for
others?