Re: Minutes / Notes

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

Pekka Nikander wrote:
> 
> Masataka Ohta wrote:
> >>The important point is, however, that if the id/loc separation
> >>is done, the source address is not needed by the end-hosts any
> >>more.  It is needed in the very first packet flowing in a direction,
> >>and perhaps in the second one, until the id->loc state is verified
> >>and established, but not after that.
> >
> > The Internet is connectionless.
> >
> > TCP is not IP, the Internet Protocol.
> 
> < Id -> locator > mapping / binding / whatever is state.

It's state in the same way that the routing tables are state -
i.e. in general transport and applications have been taught to 
ignore it, and it gets recreated by magic when it gets destroyed. 
But this WG has to worry about the magic.

  Brian