RE: F1000 requirements?

[jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)]

    > From: "Fleischman, Eric" <eric.fleischman@boeing.com>

    > The desire (requirement) is to have international addressability /
    > routing without revealing the existence of internal nodes or network
    > topology except to a select (controlled) group of outsiders

Let me understand this more fully. Are there a set of entities outside with
whom which you wish to communicate, but whom you *do not* want to have
knowledge of your network topology?

If so, that would imply that the information that those parties would have to
have about the local host at your site they were talking to would have to
come in two parts: i) a location as to where your whole site is (relative to
the topology of the network as a whole), and ii) an opaque token of some sort
which would have to be translated to give the location of the local host
within your network.

If there are no such entities, I'm not sure what the problem is: you don't
give anyone outside the address (which would reveal your network topology) of
the local host unless they are in the set which is authorized to know about
your network - but in that case there's no problem. From which I conclude
that probably there are such entities.

If so, are you willing to pay the translation overhead (which I don't see how
to avoid - you don't want to give them detailed information about the
location of the local host, ergo that information [which you have to have, to
get the packets to the local host] has to be added after it leaves the
source) on each packet?

	Noel