Re: [RRG] incrementally deployable

[Robin Whittle <rw@firstpr.com.au>]

Hello Heiner,

You have written a number of messages indicating that there is some
radically different, superior and (I guess) simpler approach to the
routing scalability problems than those currently being contemplated
with LISP-CONS/NERD, eFIT-APT, Ivip, TRRP or various moderate
enhancements to BGP.

However, I don't think you haven't written about what you are
proposing as an alternative.

Your site:

  http://www.hummel-research.de

has a Flash presentation which mentions "Multipath Direction Field
MPDF", but Google finds no other mention of this.

Where is your proposal clearly documented?

Incremental deployment means (perhaps amongst other things) that
there are immediate overall benefits for the early adopters of a new
technology.  Any scheme which requires complete upgrades of all BGP
routers, all hosts etc. is not at all incrementally adoptable.
Likewise, a scheme in which the address space managed by the new
system is unreachable from non-upgraded networks is not
incrementally deployable, because virtually all of the people who
might initially adopt this new space would find the loss of
connectivity a far greater problem than whatever benefits the new
system provided.

   - Robin


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