Re: Consensus on identifier/locator split?

[Alain Durand <Alain.Durand@Sun.COM>]

On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 06:42  PM, Masataka Ohta wrote:

> Alain;
>
> > Are you making the assumption that all your ISPs will route your PI?
> > If not, you will always end-up with multiple addresses anyway.
> >
> > To answer Tony's question, I think this split is unavoidable.
> > The question is where it happens (bellow TCP, in TCP or above)
> Wrong.
>
> As I presented in Vienna, Web is not the Internet.
>
> TCP is not the Internet Protocol.
Correct, I should have said transport instead of TCP.

> Multihomed site needs its connections kept alive on path changes,
> regardless of transport protocols.
>
> That is, the split is at IP.
That is one solution, but not the only one, and we may be OK
with a solution that modifies a limited number of transport protocol,
or with a solution that builds multihoming in a session layer on top
of transport and that would work regardless of the underneath  
protocols.

	- Alain,