Re: Consensus on identifier/locator split?

[Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>]

Tony Hain wrote:
> I would say there is consensus that splitting would solve several problems,
> but I wouldn't go so far to say there is consensus that it is the right
> approach. Fundamentally, splitting amounts to rearchitecting the Internet
> since many current assumptions would be invalidated. While this is a fine
> thing for an IRTF wg to take on, an IETF Ops WG should be focused on
> realistic things that can be done in our working lifetimes. 
We (the NSRG) looked at this, albeit obliquely.  While there was not 
even rough consensus as to results, there are several possible 
alternatives that we discussed.  How developed should a solution be 
before it hits the IETF?  HIP has implementations as does MIPv6.  There 
are some limitations to MIPv6 that Christian has done a good job of both 
illuminating and attempting to provide some answers to.  So it seems to 
me that the iEtf is well suited to look at the problem at this point in 
time, so long as the ieSG understands that the results will hit multiple 
working groups.  Trying to do this in isolation from the rest of the 
IETF would be silly.

Eliot