Re: Evaluating multiaddressing proposals

[Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com>]

Dave Crocker wrote as below, but it bounced due to a list subscription issue.

I see these comments as input to Eliot's draft.

   Brian
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Brian E Carpenter 
Distinguished Engineer, Internet Standards & Technology, IBM 

*** I will be on vacation February 3-25, 2004 ***


> 
> Folks,
> 
> I put together a list of categories that seem interesting for
> evaluating different multiaddressing proposals.
> 
> No doubt the list is terrible. That's ok. Think of what follows as an
> excuse for everyone to fix it:
> 
> Features
>         Multiaddressing
>                        Multihoming, mobility, both
>         Infrastructure
>                       None, sometimes, always
>         IP version(s)
>         Identifier
>                   Registered vs. ephemeral
>         Rendezvous
>                   Creating the association
>                   After service interruption
> 
> Overhead
>         Per payload packet
>         Control protocol
>         Transport startup delay
>         Scaling impact
>                 Constant per association, vs. deferred
>         Administration
> 
> d/
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