Re: Fwd: Minutes / Notes

[Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>]

Christian;

> That's why I was mentioning a virtual address rather than an HA. Are you
> familiar with the distributed hash table algorithms? Basically, a DHT is
> a reliable overlay on top of an arbitrary network. In a classic DHT
> design, nodes have identifiers randomly spread in a large number space.
> They maintain "routing tables" that allow them to forward a request for
> a given number to the host most likely to know about it, etc. The common
> trade-off is to have routing tables that scale as the logarithm of the
> size of the network (O(log N)), while the number of relays required to
> reach a specific destination also scales as O(log N). The routing table
> would contain the current addresses/locators associated with the
> identifier.

Feel free to call it IPv7.

						Masataka Ohta