Re: Consensus on identifier/locator split?

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

On donderdag, aug 7, 2003, at 06:14 Europe/Amsterdam, Christian Huitema 
wrote:

> create an identifier inside TCP, and then associate several 
> addresses/locators to the connection. I actually like the fact that 
> TCP can see and manage "locators", because the transport is one of the 
> best places to maintain short term knowledge about the relative 
> performance of a specific path, and thus arbitrage between the various 
> paths.
Yes, this way I want it to happen too, for the cases where the 
transport is TCP.

I believe that the current approach by the design team is compatible 
with this goal.

> Indeed, this is a generic requirement for any identifier scheme: hosts 
> that don't see the point should be able to opt-out and not bear the 
> burden associated with the "layer of indirection."
Obviously any and all mechanisms we come up with are going to be 
optional.

The problem is that the usefulness of these mechanisms is probably 
something that differs more from application to application rather than 
from host to host and we must be able to make existing applications 
support it.