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Re: Shared Locator Address Pool (SLAP) protocol proposal

Dave;

A fundamental advantage that transport-based locator-pool schemes
(SCTP, DCCP, TCP-MH) have over wedge-layer approaches (HIP, LIN6,
MAST, MIP) is that they can multiplex the control exchange in with
data traffic, potentially saving on number of packets. Wedge-layer
approaches are forced to have an explicit, separate exchange.

And, that is a possible new security threat of DoS amplifying.

1. An endpoint runs Locator Pools (LP) as a resource shared among different
consumer services at the endpoint


The Internet today already have DNS cache, which even enabls
sharing beyond an endpoint.

The obvious direction this idea leads is towards an effort to produce
a common protocol.  Clearly it should include the locator
"characterization" attribute-signalling capability that Erik suggested.


Some characterristic of a locator is already stored in an endpoint
as routing table entry or cache.

Some (such as PMTU) is better treated by the transport layer.

Masataka Ohta